Self-Folding Origami Robot Goes From Flat to Walking in Four Minutes

At the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) last year, Harvard’s Sam Felton introduced us to his printed, self-folding inchworm robot. With some external infrastructure and the addition of a motor, the inchworm could autonomously transform from a flat sheet to a crawling robot by folding itself into a 3D structure with flexible joints.

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Today, Felton and colleagues from Harvard and MIT are publishing a new paper in Science featuring a much more complex self-folding robot that can go from flat to folded and walking in four minutes without any human intervention at all. [Read more]