Can you make an origami robot with Sharpie markers?
How does the origami robot work?
- Also like its predecessor — and like several other origami robots from the Rus group — the new robot consists of two layers of structural material sandwiching a material that shrinks when heated. A pattern of slits in the outer layers determines how the robot will fold when the middle layer contracts.
Could a tiny origami Robot Rescue you from a swallowed capsule?
- Researchers at MIT and elsewhere developed 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.
Could origami robots be the future of healthcare?
- Robot unfolds from ingestible capsule, removes button battery stuck to wall of simulated stomach. Caption: “It’s really exciting to see our small origami robots doing something with potential important applications to healthcare,” Daniela Rus says. Pictured, an example of a capsule and the unfolded origami device.
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