Untethered control of functional origami microrobots with distributed actuation

LS Novelino, Q Ze, S Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Deployability, multifunctionality, and tunability are features that can be explored in the
design space of origami engineering solutions. These features arise from the shape …

Design, fabrication and control of origami robots

D Rus, MT Tolley - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Origami robots are created using folding processes, which provide a simple approach to
fabricating a wide range of robot morphologies. Inspired by biological systems, engineers …

Reconfigurable magnetic origami actuators with on‐board sensing for guided assembly

M Ha, GS Cañón Bermúdez, JAC Liu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Origami utilizes orchestrated transformation of soft 2D structures into complex 3D
architectures, mimicking shapes and functions found in nature. In contrast to origami in …

Electro-ribbon actuators and electro-origami robots

M Taghavi, T Helps, J Rossiter - Science Robotics, 2018 - science.org
Origami has inspired novel solutions across myriad fields from DNA synthesis to robotics.
Even wider impact can be achieved by active origami, which can move and change shape …

Origami-based integration of robots that sense, decide, and respond

W Yan, S Li, M Deguchi, Z Zheng, D Rus… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Origami-inspired engineering has enabled intelligent materials and structures to process
and react to environmental stimuli. However, it is challenging to achieve complete sense …

A soft active origami robot

J Li, H Godaba, ZQ Zhang, CC Foo, J Zhu - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Origami has emerged as a powerful methodology for developing intelligent transformable
robots. Although there is considerable progress in origami techniques to enable the design …

Controlled mechanical buckling for origami‐inspired construction of 3D microstructures in advanced materials

Z Yan, F Zhang, J Wang, F Liu, X Guo… - Advanced functional …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Origami is a topic of rapidly growing interest in both the scientific and engineering research
communities due to its promising potential in a broad range of applications. Previous …

3D printing of complex origami assemblages for reconfigurable structures

Z Zhao, X Kuang, J Wu, Q Zhang, GH Paulino, HJ Qi… - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Origami engineering principles have recently been applied to a wide range of applications,
including soft robots, stretchable electronics, and mechanical metamaterials. In order to …

Elastically and plastically foldable electrothermal micro‐origami for controllable and rapid shape morphing

Y Zhu, M Birla, KR Oldham… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Integrating origami principles within traditional microfabrication methods can produce shape
morphing microscale metamaterials and 3D systems with complex geometries and …

Design methodology for constructing multimaterial origami robots and machines

Z Zhakypov, J Paik - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic origami allows rapid prototyping of intelligent robots and machines constructed from
thin sheets of functional materials. Multimaterial-based design freedom of origami robots …