Back in 1999, Erik Demaine was a PhD student who created an algorithm that determined the folding patterns necessary to turn a piece of paper into any 3D shape. However, the algorithm was far from ...

Getting to the root of the problem has never looked quite like this, medically speaking. Thanks to the latest innovation from the minds at MIT, there is now a tiny origami robot capable of performing ...

BROCKTON - It’s no surprise that there are origami fanatics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Paper folding is, after all, an exercise in engineering, and origami has practical ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Researchers are developing robots that can treat patients inside the body. Dr. Mallika Marshall reports on one such robot designed to treat problems in the gut. You could almost call it ...

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A joint team of American and British scientists have developed a tiny 'origami robot', which can be swallowed and used to remove foreign objects from the stomach. The robot, created by researchers ...

Standard flat solar panels are only optimized to capture sunlight at one point of the sun’s trajectory — otherwise they need automated tracking systems to follow the sun. MIT power engineering ...

New program helps predict complex 3D structures based on a given DNA template, opening the door to developing more targeted drug delivery systems, synthetic photocells, and more. Elizabeth Armstrong ...

Weighing just one third of a gram, MIT's newest self-folding origami robot looks rather cute zipping around the surface of an arm, swimming through a tiny pool, or pushing tiny pink blocks toward tiny ...

In theory, Origami is simple: Take a sheet of paper, follow the dotted lines and without the use of scissors or glue, you’ve got a paper crane. It stands to reason that if you’re good at following ...