An origami robot can crawl forward like a snake 1. Snakes’ winding movements have long inspired robotics researchers, but the linear motion that allows the reptiles to creep through tight spaces ...

Researchers develop an ingestible origami robot that has demonstrated the ability to unfold and retrieve a button battery from a simulated stomach. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

An ingestible origami robot designed to patch wounds, deliver medicine or remove foreign objects from a person's stomach has been developed by researchers from MIT, the University of Sheffield and the ...

As if a brain-like processing chip weren't bad enough news for us humans, this week's edition of Science also describes a robot that, after being laid out as a flat sheet, can fold itself into the ...

Using techniques inspired by the art of origami, a US-based team has built a robot that can fold itself into shape starting from a flat sheet. The results are described in the 8 August issue of ...

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 ...

Origami is taking on a new, futuristic shape of Transformer-like proportions. Researchers from Harvard and MIT have created a robot that, when armed with batteries, can fold itself into a complex ...

It is a horror every parent has encountered - the panic at discovering their child has swallowed something they shouldn't have. But in future, thanks to a team of scientists at Massachusetts Institute ...

An international team of researchers has recently showcased a tiny origami robot that can be swallowed and controlled by external magnetic fields. According to Daniela Rus, an electrical engineering ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are making our geeky childhood dreams come true by building real-life ...

After 1-year-old Emmett Rauch ate a lithium battery, he began vomiting blood, prompting a visit to critical care and emergency surgery. A doctor later would compare the toddler’s throat to the scene ...

It self-folds, walks and even swims – then recycles itself when its job is done. Made by Shuhei Miyashita and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a 1.7-centimetre-long origami robot ...