In the realm of microrobotics, small and malleable machines are, in the meme-y words of Mugatu, so hot right now. Scientists appear to be doing everything they can to crack the code behind what it ...

The days of waiting for a swallowed item to pass through the body may soon be gone, thanks to a tiny pill-size origami robot. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers recently developed a ...

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An ingestible origami robot is capable of unfolding itself from a swallowed capsule and crawling across a person’s stomach wall to remove swallowed objects or patch injuries. The research group of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Scientists will unveil technology this week that could eventually help children who swallow button batteries. More than 3,000 people swallow the highly corrosive batteries every ...

Researchers at Harvard collaborated with Sony to build a tiny, origami-inspired surgical robot. The robot is only about the size of a tennis ball and weighs only as much as a penny. And it’s not just ...

If a soft-bodied robot uses rigid actuators to move its body, then it isn't really soft now, is it? An experimental new caterpillar-inspired bot gets around that conundrum by using soft, collapsible ...

Most people can fold a piece of paper by the time they're in kindergarten, but it's not child's play for a robot, which must use complex mathematical formulas to accomplish the task. That's why ...

Researchers have used origami to create flexible robotic muscles strong enough to lift up to 1,000 times their own weight. Subtle as well as strong, they could be used to deliver medicine, create ...

Researchers have built a flower-shaped robot that can pick up objects more than 100 times its own weight. The robot has an origami "magic ball" skeleton, and its main advantage is that it's able to ...

Deep sea scientists have a longstanding problem: studying a soft, spineless creature without damaging it beyond recognition. Now they have a new solution: origami-inspired robots with a soft touch. In ...