Once merely ancient arts, origami (ie, paper folding) and kirigami (ie, paper cutting) have in
recent years also become popular for building mechanical metamaterials and now provide …

Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, is not only an inspiring technique to
create sophisticated shapes, but also a surprisingly powerful method to induce nonlinear …

Origami tessellations can be folded from a given planar pattern into a three-dimensional
object with specific geometric properties, inspiring developments in various fields of science …

Origami-inspired designs possess attractive applications to science and engineering (eg
deployable, self-assembling, adaptable systems). The special geometric arrangement of …

Origami-inspired systems are attractive for creating structures and devices with tunable
properties, multiple functionalities, high-ratio packaging capabilities, easy fabrication, and …

The creation of reversibly-actuating components that alter their shapes in a controllable
manner in response to environmental stimuli is a grand challenge in active materials …

Thin sheets assembled into three dimensional folding origami can have various applications
from reconfigurable architectural structures to metamaterials with tunable properties …

Robots autonomously interact with their environment through a continual sense–decide–
respond control loop. Most commonly, the decide step occurs in a central processing unit; …

Flat-foldable origami tessellations are periodic geometric designs that can be transformed
from an initial configuration into a flat-folded state. There is growing interest in such …

Recent advances in designing metamaterials have demonstrated that global mechanical
properties of disordered spring networks can be tuned by selectively modifying only a small …