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 …

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 …

Multifunctional metallic backbones for origami robotics with strain sensing and wireless communication capabilities

H Yang, BS Yeow, Z Li, K Li, TH Chang, L Jing, Y Li… - Science Robotics, 2019 - science.org
The tight integration of actuation, sensing, and communication capabilities into origami
robots enables the development of new-generation functional robots. However, this task is …

Adaptive hierarchical origami-based metastructures

Y Li, A Di Lallo, J Zhu, Y Chi, H Su, J Yin - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Shape-morphing capabilities are crucial for enabling multifunctionality in both biological and
artificial systems. Various strategies for shape morphing have been proposed for …

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 …

Origami-inspired soft actuators for stimulus perception and crawling robot applications

T Jin, L Li, T Wang, G Wang, J Cai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Origami has been proved as a valuable tool to develop deployable, multifunctional, and
tunable devices for diverse engineering applications. Inspired by the Kresling origami, this …

A method for building self-folding machines

S Felton, M Tolley, E Demaine, D Rus, R Wood - Science, 2014 - science.org
Origami can turn a sheet of paper into complex three-dimensional shapes, and similar
folding techniques can produce structures and mechanisms. To demonstrate the application …

Origami-based tunable truss structures for non-volatile mechanical memory operation

H Yasuda, T Tachi, M Lee, J Yang - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Origami has recently received significant interest from the scientific community as a method
for designing building blocks to construct metamaterials. However, the primary focus has …

Stretchable circuits and sensors for robotic origami

JK Paik, RK Kramer, RJ Wood - 2011 IEEE/RSJ international …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Programmable materials based on robotic origami have been demonstrated with the
capability to fold into 3D shapes starting from a nominally 2D sheet. This concept requires …