Robots are used in all sorts of industries on a wide variety of tasks. Typically, it’s because they’re far faster, more accurate, and more capable than we are. Expert humans could not compete with the ...

Thanks to the ancient art of paper folding, a little scientific ingenuity, and a whole mess of Shrinky Dinks, researchers have designed flat paper robots that can fold themselves into 3-D shapes and ...

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Over dinner with a potential business partner in 2019, Swedish designer Tue Beijer pulled out some sketches and a model of an electric scooter made out of folded paper. He explained that he wanted to ...

It seems like every week there’s a new video of a robot folding clothes. We’ve had some fantastic demonstrations, like this semi-autonomous video from Weave Robotics on X. And besides folding actual ...

A robot can design, build and test objects made from folded paper, such as planes or grippers, better than a human if given the same number of attempts. Robotic laboratories can test and design ...