Origami, the Japanese art form that dates at least to the 17th century, creates unique patterns and shapes from paper folding. Today, origami is inspiring engineers to design active materials and ...

The emerging field of origami-inspired mechanical metamaterials and structures harnesses the age-old art of paper folding to achieve sophisticated, reconfigurable designs with applications ranging ...

Inspired by the paper-folding art of origami, engineers have discovered a way to make a single plastic cubed structure transform into more than 1,000 configurations using only three active motors.

A massive prize for the science project of Miles Wu from New York, as this young teenager folded papers in the hope of aiding ...

A 14-year-old innovator designed a Miura-ori origami structure strong enough to support 10,000× its weight, earning him the ...

BEND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Origami Solar, the developer of sustainable and domestically produced steel solar module frames, today announced the appointment of Lauren Busby Ahsler, P.E., S.E., as ...

Tue Beijer, CTO and co-founder of STILFOLD looks at how the ancient Japanese art of Origami can be applied to modern engineering materials and challenges. Tue Beijer, CTO and co-founder of STILFOLD ...

Engineers use techniques from Origami to design spacecraft components, medical robots and antenna arrays. Researchers have developed a system to explain the rules that govern some of these key ...