Design, fabrication and control of origami robots

D Rus, MT Tolley - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018‏ - nature.com
Origami robots are created using folding processes, which provide a simple approach to
fabricating a wide range of robot morphologies. Inspired by biological systems, engineers …

Plug & play origami modules with all-purpose deformation modes

C Zhang, Z Zhang, Y Peng, Y Zhang, S An… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Three basic deformation modes of an object (bending, twisting, and contraction/extension)
along with their various combinations and delicate controls lead to diverse locomotion. As a …

Spotlight on origami robots

D Rus, C Sung - Science Robotics, 2018‏ - science.org
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Origami-inspired soft actuators for stimulus perception and crawling robot applications

T **, L Li, T Wang, G Wang, J Cai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Origami has been proved as a valuable tool to develop deployable, multifunctional, and
tunable devices for diverse engineering applications. Inspired by the Kresling origami, this …

Foldio: Digital fabrication of interactive and shape-changing objects with foldable printed electronics

S Olberding, S Soto Ortega, K Hildebrandt… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2015‏ - dl.acm.org
Foldios are foldable interactive objects with embedded input sensing and output
capabilities. Foldios combine the advantages of folding for thin, lightweight and shape …

Design methodology for constructing multimaterial origami robots and machines

Z Zhakypov, J Paik - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic origami allows rapid prototy** of intelligent robots and machines constructed from
thin sheets of functional materials. Multimaterial-based design freedom of origami robots …

NeuralFluid: Nueral Fluidic System Design and Control with Differentiable Simulation

Y Li, Y Sun, P Ma, E Sifakis, T Du… - Advances in Neural …, 2025‏ - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present NeuralFluid, a novel framework to explore neural control and design of complex
fluidic systems with dynamic solid boundaries. Our system features a fast differentiable …

Laser cutting as a rapid method for fabricating thin soft pneumatic actuators and robots

AA Amiri Moghadam, S Alaie, S Deb Nath… - Soft robotics, 2018‏ - liebertpub.com
Pneumatically actuated soft robots address many challenges with interfacing with delicate
objects, but these actuators/robots are still bulky and require many hours to fabricate, limiting …

An origami-based medical support system to mitigate flexible shaft buckling

B Sargent, J Butler, K Seymour… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents the development of an origami-inspired support system (the OriGuide)
that enables the insertion of flexible instruments using medical robots. Varying parameters of …

Origami-inspired robot that swims via jet propulsion

Z Yang, D Chen, DJ Levine… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater swimmers present unique opportunities for using bodily reconfiguration for self
propulsion. Origami-inspired designs are low-cost, fast to fabricate, robust, and can be used …