Mention origami and images of cute paper cranes spring to mind. But scientists are using the ancient Japanese papercraft to revolutionise structural engineering. Researchers have developed a new ...

Tue Beijer, CTO and co-founder of STILFOLD looks at how the ancient Japanese art of Origami can be applied to modern engineering materials and challenges. Tue Beijer, CTO and co-founder of STILFOLD ...

Origami is no longer just art—it has become a powerful engineering tool. Scientists are using folding patterns to design surgical devices, space structures, and even bulletproof materials. A single ...

Origami — the art of making various shapes from a single piece of paper — has been realized at the nanoscale using DNA. Sheets of ‘DNA wireframe paper’ have been developed that, through folding along ...

In this study, researchers developed a self-folding origami gripper that abruptly changes conformation when force is applied. By mounting this low-cost and biodegradable structure on top of a ...

The first of a series of slides titled, "Opening new sciences through origami" is seen. (Mainichi/All photos provided by Hokkaido University associate professor Kaori Kuribayashi-Shigetomi) TOKYO -- ...

Origami is no longer just an art form — it has become a powerful tool in modern engineering. By studying how flat surfaces fold into complex structures, engineers design systems that are lightweight, ...

Origami and kirigami have inspired a multidisciplinary team of engineers and architects to apply these ancient paper-folding art techniques to geometric principles and thereby create living buildings ...

Prototype origami structures designed by Glaucio Paulino and Evgueni Filipov. B: an expandable bridge; C: architectural designs. Photo: Georgia Tech Design for a deployable architectural canopy. Photo ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...