For those who are suffering from disease or traumatic injuries, receiving an organ transplant can be the difference between life and death. But the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports ...

Marking a significant advancement in molecular robotics, researchers have created custom-designed and programmable nanostructures using DNA origami. The University of Sydney Nano Institute team ...

The arm uses origami for its construction. Lightweight plastic is folded in construction. The arm is designed to assist people with disabilities. WORCESTER — When someone envisions a robotic arm, they ...

Folding robots are nothing new, but scientists from Harvard and MIT have taken it to the next level, by designing one that assembles itself and walks away to do its job with zero human input. The ...

Researchers at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, have applied the principle of interlacing ...

Scientists in Japan are developing a way for a tiny medical robot to enter your system and administer medicine — origami style. The team is made up of researchers from MIT, the University of Sheffield ...

A research team at Harvard and MIT announced today that they've created a self-assembling robot. The machine, which begins as a flat sheet of material, exploits principles of origami to fold itself ...

Origami has always been an artform that’s fun to watch. But now one Swiss artist is attempting to elevate the concept of origami as performance art with an Indiegogo campaign to help him realize his ...

Tiny robots modeled after bacteria could be used to deliver drugs to hard to reach areas of the human body. Scientists at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss Federal ...

Here's my opinion as an origamier. Extremely complex shapes can be created using one piece of paper. Origami is scalable. You can make something that's squishy and malleable in almost the same way as ...

Alma Haser's photos have everything necessary to make a stunning portrait---fashionably dressed subjects, precise lighting, and perfect poses. But it all goes awry when you look at the face. Or what's ...

Monday after school, her classroom sits quiet, desks empty, lights off, except for one. In the corner, on the bookshelf near tissues and Clorox wipes, the light pools from a school bus lamp. Nearby ...