When people worry whether robots are going to take all the jobs, usually the techno-utopian’s answer is that robots will also create new jobs, too. Because we’ll need lots of people to design and ...

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A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move.

Imagine swallowing a tablet knowing it contains a robot that, when it enters your stomach, unfolds like origami and crawls its way around to heal where the ailment is. This could be the future of ...

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 ...