ORIGAMI-style space homes that spring off the ground on Mars could house future visitors to the red planet. These hi-tech ...

At CES 2026, Infinix debuted always-connected satellite phones, a set of modular magnetic accessories, and a remarkable range ...

When people are dropped into the most dangerous of conditions – as when disaster strikes, or during exploration of another ...

Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material properties of a single geometry in ways that are sometimes stronger than those of ...

For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, is a wonderful way to create beautiful and intricate designs. While traditional origami mainly features two-dimensional shapes, 3D origami takes ...

A 3D shape with all straight edges and flat faces is a polyhedron. Other 3D shapes with least one curved surface are not polyhedra. A 3D shape with regular polygonal faces, meeting at equal angles, is ...

Abstract: Localizing each module in a modular self-reconfigurable robot (MSR) is of paramount importance. In MSR, the communication graph is directly mapped to the real topology which makes the ...

Abstract: Pneumatic soft actuators are widely used in various applications. Recent years, pneumatic origami actuators were studied intensively because of the advantages of high energy efficiency, ...

This is not another simple application This is not another proof of concept (PoC) The goal is to present the implementation of an application that would be ready to run in production To sum up, there ...