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.

In what may be the birth of cheap, easy-to-make robots, researchers have created complex machines that transform themselves from little more than a sheet of paper and plastic into walking automatons.

The robots incorporated with paper electrodes and liquid crystal elastomer bilayer achieve asymmetric bending.

Paper structures built using the principles of origami could lead to cheap, easy-to-make robots that are very different from their more traditional metal brethren. George Whitesides and colleagues ...

The “Janken robot” is the third version created by a team at the school’s Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory. The first incarnation of the bot had a rock, paper, scissors reaction speed of about ...

Though clearly inspired by the snake, a new soft robot out of Harvard takes cues from another fascinating source: the ancient Japanese paper craft kirigami. Unlike origami, kirigami uses cuts ...