McGill University engineers have developed ultra-thin materials that can move, fold, and reshape themselves, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Nothing captures the public imagination quite like an outrageous contraption that promises to do your most annoying chores for you. Case in point, this week, a video of a laundry-folding robot called ...

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 ...