Self-assembling origami robots


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

by Larry Hardesty
May 12, 2016
 

Stomach trouble? Try swallowing a robot

Published on Jul 18, 2016

A tiny, ingestible robot could be a new tool for healing serious stomach wounds. Researchers call it an “origami robot” because the accordion-shaped gadget is folded and frozen into an ice capsule, then unfolds after being swallowed. (July 19)
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