Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes and figures, has long served as inspiration for industrial design. The concept of folding has been used to build reconfigurable ...

A sheet of paper can bend, twist, and tear easily. But folded several times, it becomes stiff and can support objects many times its weight. That’s the basic idea behind “origami engineering,” an ...

Civil structures are essential components of civilizations that support modern society by providing functional space and habitable shelter. To this day, we are surrounded by buildings and ...

From military shelters and solar arrays to batteries and drones, engineers continue to prove that origami can be the inspiration for more than just paper cranes. The latest creation inspired by the ...

A mold-free additive process prints rigid and flexible materials onto fabric, cutting time and cost for lightweight, ...

Researchers have developed a new “zippered tube” that makes paper structures that are stiff enough to hold weight and fold flat for convenient shipping and storage. The team, made up of researchers ...

Crawling back in time to take a leap into Japanese culture, we find the real meaning of ORIGAMI where ORI means folding and GAMI means paper. After the invention of paper, paper folding emerged as ...

TOKYO -- Scientists are bringing out the practical side of origami. Inspired by the Japanese art of paper-folding, they have discovered structures that are extremely difficult to deform. Besides the ...