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.

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 at ...

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 ...