Engineers have created a configurable robot that can transform into various structures, which has potential applications for building habitats in space.

A real-life Transformer has been created by scientists inspired by the Japanese paper-folding art of origami. In tests, the small shape-changing robot folded itself into a functional machine that ...

Watch these ‘transformer’ robots fold themselves into boats, wheels and other useful shapes A magnetic cube moves to a sheet of origami that folds around it and transforms into a walking bot.

Researchers have created an origami robot that folds itself into shape from a flat sheet, potentially opening the way for a robot-building revolution.

Origami robots can now assemble themselves and start their own motors without human interaction. Origami robots may be the next great revolution in automated technology.

Now a team of engineers from Harvard and MIT has made the concept behind Transformers—the multibillion-dollar franchise based on cars that turn into robots—into a reality.

Researchers have created a robot that can change its shape by folding itself up like a piece of origami and crawl away.Built by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, it ...

An origami-inspired robot that self-assembles and then scuttles away under its own power has been revealed by researchers from Harvard University and MIT. Still in the experimental stage, the ...

In experiments, self-folding, heat-activated origami suits created for robots could help the machines walk, roll, sail and glide, according to the new study.

That means that manufacturers might be able to make changes to a robot design quite easily, without having to dramatically retool an assembly line.