Miles Wu, 14, said an origami fold could hold over 10,000 times its own weight, the equivalent of a NYC taxi cab holding over ...

Origami, the art of paper folding, is an emerging platform for mechanical metamaterials. Prior work on the design of origami-based structures has focused on simple geometric constructions for limited ...

Lawrence de Galan features a number of fun, largely intermediate-level origami designs, including Pokémon, hearts, stars, animals and even household objects like tables, spoons and nail clippers. He ...

Researchers at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, have applied the principle of interlacing ...

TOKYO Japan is rediscovering the beauty of origami in modern forms. The age-old paper-folding technique is now being applied to a variety of goods, from a lens-cleaning cloth shaped like a crane to a ...

A beloved Christmas tree tradition is returning to Manhattan for the holiday season next week. No, it’s not the towering spruce at Rockefeller Center, which is lit in early December. The comparatively ...

A cacophony of barking alerts me to the cardboard box delivered to my front door. Packed inside is a single sheet of white corrugated plastic folded into what looks like a large suitcase. My canine ...

Frustration: detrimental or desirable? Sometimes detrimental, but sometimes desirable to achieve new functionalities of nonrigid multistable origami structures. It provides the means to augment the ...

Over the past decades, a growing number of robotics teams have started developing modular robots inspired by the ancient ...

Flocks of paper origami hummingbirds crafted by children around the world have departed their locations to “attend” the UN Water Conference in New York from 22-24 March, carrying the future generation ...