Self-assembling origami robots

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“An Untethered Miniature Origami Robot That Self-folds, Walks, Swims, and Degrades”

by Shuhei Miyashita, Steven Guitron, Marvin Ludersdorfer, Cynthia R. Sung, and Daniela Rus from MIT and TU Munich, was presented yesterday at ICRA 2015 in Seattle.

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Miniature origami robot self-folds, walks, swims, and degrades

Uploaded on May 28, 2015

"Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Does Cool Stuff, Dissolves Into Nothing"

by Evan Ackerman
May 28, 2015

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Robot Origami: Robot self-folds, walks, and completes tasks

Published on Jun 11, 2015

A team of MIT researchers have developed a printable origami robot that folds itself up from a flat sheet of plastic when heated and measures about a centimeter from front to back.

Weighing only a third of a gram, the robot can swim, climb an incline, traverse rough terrain, and carry a load twice its weight.

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Origami robot swims, walks and dissolves

Published on Jun 12, 2015

Watch it self-fold, walk, and even swim. A tiny robot made of plastic can be "controlled" by an external magnetic field

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"Centimeter-long origami robot"
Controlled by magnetic fields, tiny robot climbs inclines, swims, and carries loads twice its weight.

by Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office
June 12, 2015

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Ingestible origami robot

Published on May 12, 2016

Researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound.

"Ingestible origami robot"
Robot unfolds from ingestible capsule, removes button battery stuck to wall of simulated stomach.

by Larry Hardesty
May 12, 2016