Engineers have created a configurable robot that can transform into various structures, which has potential applications for building habitats in space.

Now an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice University, Novelino has built her research on a ...

Inspired by the paper-folding art of origami, engineers have discovered a way to make a single plastic cubed structure transform into more than 1,000 configurations using only three active motors.

Towards optimising such structures, researchers at Pusan National University in Korea have found a way to make a monolithic pre-object flat-pack by defining stiff flat parts and flexible hinges in ...

New shape-shifting ‘Transformer bots’ have been inspired by origami. The versatile robots could transform space travel, say scientists.

Borrowing from the ancient Japanese art of origami, children’s toys and even a touch of the “Transformers” movies, scientists and engineers at Harvard and MIT created self-assembling, paper ...

The transformer bots can make shapes such as tunnel-like structures, bridge-like structures, and even multi-story architectures. LA MM VIA PEXELS. The North Carolina State University research team ...

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