Origami Robot Folds Itself and Walks Away
Pretty cool, new from Harvard: http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/162/robot-folds-itself-up-and-walks-away
August 7, 2014 (BOSTON) A team of engineers used little more than paper and Shrinky dinks the classic children's toy that shrinks when heated to build a robot that assembles itself into a complex shape in four minutes flat, and crawls away without any human intervention. The advance, described in Science, demonstrates the potential to quickly and cheaply build sophisticated machines that interact with the environment, and to automate much of the design and assembly process. The method draws inspiration from self-assembly in nature, such as the way linear sequences of amino acids fold into complex proteins with sophisticated functions.
August 7, 2014 (BOSTON) A team of engineers used little more than paper and Shrinky dinks the classic children's toy that shrinks when heated to build a robot that assembles itself into a complex shape in four minutes flat, and crawls away without any human intervention. The advance, described in Science, demonstrates the potential to quickly and cheaply build sophisticated machines that interact with the environment, and to automate much of the design and assembly process. The method draws inspiration from self-assembly in nature, such as the way linear sequences of amino acids fold into complex proteins with sophisticated functions.
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