After all, they combine the best of those two worlds and allow you to build functional, Wi-Fi-connected robots out of paper.

This robot paper plane designer (really a robot arm fashioned with silicone grippers) can run through this whole process without human feedback. A video of the robot at work.

Start with paper; add Shrinky Dinks, a microprocessor, heat, and voila! It's not quite that easy. But this engineering project might one day lead to a printable, flat spacecraft that folds itself.

This guy built a whole robot out of paper, and it actually works. Check out the piece by piece construction below; watch until the end when it walks.

Scientists have discovered how to build robots out of rice paper, opening up brand new possibilities for robotic applications. A team from the University of Bristol discovered that the same ...