Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. Today’s tour includes hundreds of easy-to-learn models. You can start with regular printer paper, but as you progress you may be interested in ...

For years, a team of researchers at MIT and Harvard University has been working on origami robots—reconfigurable robots that would be able to fold themselves into arbitrary shapes. In the August 7 ...

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. The robot’s design ...