Once merely ancient arts, origami (ie, paper folding) and kirigami (ie, paper cutting) have in
recent years also become popular for building mechanical metamaterials and now provide …

Origami-inspired systems are attractive for creating structures and devices with tunable
properties, multiple functionalities, high-ratio packaging capabilities, easy fabrication, and …

Origami has emerged as a powerful mechanism for designing functional foldable and
deployable structures. Among various origami patterns, a large class of origami exhibits …

Kresling pattern origami is known for its bistable property, as confirmed by the truss model
used to analyze its dynamics. However, our theoretical research and folding experiments …

This study examines a biology-inspired approach of using reconfigurable articulation to
reduce the control requirement for soft robotic arms. We construct a robotic arm by …

Efficient vibration isolation is an important problem in engineering. Nonlinear isolators with
quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) property have been studied for many years due to their beneficial …

Tunable metamaterials without the necessity to redesign parameters and remanufacture
have received increasing interest in recent years due to their rich dynamic characteristics …

Foldable and reconfigurable helical antennas change shape to adapt and reconfigure their
electromagnetic properties. In order to realize the frequency reconfigurability of helical …

Kresling origami has recently been widely used to design mechanical metamaterials, soft
robots and smart devices, benefiting from its bistability and compression-twist coupling …

Inflatable space capsules can be compactly folded to a small volume during launch and then
deployed in space to create a large enclosed place for astronauts and equipment. Current …