Origami—the Japanese art of folding paper—could be the next frontier in innovative materials. Practiced in Japan since the early 1600s, origami involves combining simple folding techniques to ...

Becca Barron fished her hand into a plastic tub filled with origami paper cranes. “There’s thousands in here, and I have probably six or seven more boxes just like this,” she said ...

Researchers recently shared details on creating foldable, self-locking structures by using multi-material 3D printing. These origami-inspired designs can transition between flat and three-dimension… ...

Yang and his team developed the method as part of a U.K. wastewater surveillance program. In 2021, he tested the sensors at four quarantine hotels around Heathrow Airport in London.

Researchers have developed an innovative new method for identifying biomarkers in wastewater using origami-paper sensors, enabling the tracking of infectious diseases using the camera in a mobile ...

Origami paper sensors could help early detection of infectious diseases in new simple, low-cost test Peer-Reviewed Publication. Cranfield University ...

This is the decorative origami paper envelope is a perfect craft that really helps you bring back the art of sending cards. "Snail mail," as it is called, is a lost art, but a beautiful idea like this ...

Hagiwara is rushing to develop a specialized 3D printer for origami. He first completed the technique of turning a 3D scan of the desired structure into a paper pattern. Right now, development is ...

Feet-less ‘Transformer’ robots shape-shift into 1,000 forms with origami ... Using a 3D printer, ... going from being flat or totally open to being a larger cube that resembles a box or is ...

NO, we’re not quite in the era of being able to download and 3d-print a whole motorcycle but Yamaha has added to its long-running series of ‘papercraft’ models with a ridiculously complex and detailed ...

Bridge in a box: Unlocking origami's power to produce load-bearing structures Foldable origami with thick panels opens a world of possibilities Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Michigan ...

For decades, mathematicians were drawn to origami because “it seemed fun and useless,” said Erik Demaine, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has contributed ...