Origami Robot
Way. Cool. They fold up, crawl, and give you bug covered dreams.
Have a look at the video, “An Untethered Miniature Origami Robot that Self-folds, Walks, Swims, and Degrades,” by wizard creators: Shuhei Miyashita, Steven Guitron, Marvin Ludersdorfer, Cynthia R. Sung, and Daniela Rus from MIT and TU Munich.
Image source: Evan Ackermann, IEEE Spectrum [posted with permission]
Reads & References
- Phoebe Gavin, The Origami Robots
- International Conference on Robotics and Automation
- Nat Geo, Robots
- Robots 3D Education
- UC Berkeley Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab
- Larry Hardesty, Centimeter-long origami robot
- MIT, Robot Origami: Robot self-folds, walks, and completes tasks
- Nidhi Subbaraman, MIT’s tiny origami robots hint at future dissolving nano-surgeons
- Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Does Cool Stuff, Dissolves Into Nothing
- Evan Ackerman, @BotJunkie, Automaton
- IEEE Spectrum, youtube, An Untethered Miniature Origami Robot that Self-folds, Walks, Swims, and Degrades
Image source: Evan Ackermann, IEEE Spectrum [posted with permission]
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