Origami modules that fold and adapt into different shapes could one day allow for construction in all sorts of places, including outer space.

Robot microfliers that can change how they move through the air use origami to snap into a folded position during their descent.

Inspired by metamorphosis in nature, a kirigami material creates transforming structures. Could it lead to variable architectures?

Creating satellites that could travel flat and transform themselves into a dish shape would make space exploration easier, say researchers.

Curved origami isn't just elegant art. It's also a versatile way to vary the amount of force applied by robots and other machines.

In a collaboration between Harvard and Sony, engineers have brought surgical robotics down to the microscale by creating a new, origami-inspired miniature manipulator to improve precision and control.

Origami has inpsired a new kind of microbot that can fold itself. It could be useful in fields like medical equipment and infrastructure sensing.

Thanks to its toughness, "protein origami" could be useful in drug delivery, sensing, or other applications.

A paper cutting method called kirigami can spin terahertz rays in real time to peer into biological tissue, report researchers.

Landing is stressful on a rocket's legs because they must handle the force of the impact with the landing pad. A new origami metamaterial could help.