Eli Sloutskin and Alexander Butenko watched this droplet transform as they lowered and then raised its temperature. As it cools, the spherical droplet of hexadecane briefly becomes an icosahedron ...

Origami is no longer just an art form — it has become a powerful tool in modern engineering. By studying how flat surfaces fold into complex structures, engineers design systems that are lightweight, ...

These actuators use origami structures to mechanically amplify the motion of soft electrohydraulic transducers, achieving extreme actuation strain (~3300 %) and peak strain rates exceeding 23,500 ...

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A crawling robot created with the Miura-Ori origami pattern. The dark areas are covered in a thin magnetic rubber film which allows the robot to move.North Carolina State University Origami isn’t just ...

Princeton engineers are twisting, stretching and creasing structures to create a new type of origami, one that changes its shape and properties in response to changing circumstances. The new method ...

Larissa Novelino holds a paper model of a structure made from origami engineering. Credit: Alex Becker/Rice University. When Larissa Novelino started her career as an engineer, she never expected that ...

BYU student discovers previously unknown "blooming flower" origami folding pattern. The new technique has an infinite number of variations that can expand into 3-D forms. The designs have potential ...

A new device designed by engineers at MIT could soon help billions of people worldwide access clean, safe drinking water by pulling it right out of thin air. That might sound like science fiction, but ...

More than a thousand years ago, East Asians discovered how a newfangled product called paper could be folded into pleasing shapes, and the art of origami was born. Today, University of Minnesota ...