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Now a team has taken inspiration from origami to create a modular metamaterial ... from lightweight dancing robots to mechanical computing.

The robot has an origami "magic ball" skeleton, and its main advantage is that it's able to pick up delicate and irregularly-shaped objects. It's the latest creation to come out of the field of ...

This material can expand, change shape, move, and respond to electromagnetic commands like a remotely controlled robot, even though it has no motor or internal gears. In a study that echoes scenes ...

The method uses "DNA origami," so-called as it uses the natural ... including a "nano-dinosaur," a "dancing robot" and a mini-Australia that is 150 nanometers wide, a thousand times narrower ...