In this video, Mashable spotlights how MIT researchers have developed an origami-inspired soft robotic gripper that can grasp a wide variety of objects.
Prof. Daniela Rus and her team at CSAIL have developed an ingestible origami robot that can unfold itself in the body and retrieve items that may have been swallowed accidentally, like batteries.
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere developed a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound.
The Gates Foundation has awarded grants to develop a new condom in the coming year and products like the Origami condom are nearly ready for manufacturing.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have developed a variety of origami-inspired artificial muscles that can lift up to a thousand times their own weight — and yet be dexterous enough to grip and raise a delicate flower.
Do you plan to release a guide for interested people to build there own garden!? MIT researchers have developed a garden filled with origami robots, LED flowers that can bloom on command and mechanical insects, reports Nidhi Subbaraman for BetaBoston.
But scientists have now developed an ingestible robot that unfolds in the stomach like a piece of origami and crawls and swims to retrieve a battery, CNET reports.
Though not identified as gaining inspiration from origami, the US military developed a series of accordion shelters in the mid-twentieth century which embody many of the qualities of origami-inspired shelters of interest today.
Rothemund developed a versatile and simple 'one-pot' 2D DNA origami method named 'scaffolded DNA origami,' which involves the folding of a long single strand of viral DNA into a DNA scaffold of a desired shape, such as a square, rectangle, triangle, five-pointed star, and even a smiley face using multiple short 'staple' strands [130].
These days when Dr. Lang is not inventing new models using a specialized origami software package he has developed, he acts as an origami consultant.
I originally developed this activity, creating an origami paper crane, as part of a unit for teaching elementary school students about the impact of nuclear war and the need for peace and middle-level students about Japanese culture.
