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Korea tests an ultra-rugged robot built for the Moon’s caves

South Korean engineers are stress testing a new kind of lunar robot that is designed to survive the Moon’s most hostile ...
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ORIPA is a drawing software dedicated to designing the crease patterns of origami. The unique feature of ORIPA is calculation of the folded shape from the pattern.

The first version of ORIPA was released in 2005. ORIPA was made open source in 2012, and was pushed to Github in 2013. To find out more about using the software ...
IEEE

Ori-Pixel, a Multi-DoFs Origami Pixel for Modular Reconfigurable Surfaces

Abstract: Reconfigurable surfaces using robotic pixels can produce discretize 3D contours, shapes and motion patterns. In existing devices, the rendering resolution and richness of shapes and patterns ...

Green Christmas: decking the halls without wrecking the planet

Sustainability is not an add-on, but stamped firmly into the process: every piece is biodegradable, waste-free and ...
IEEE

Automatic Couplings With Mechanical Overload Protection for Modular Robots

Abstract: This paper presents an automatic coupling mechanism with mechanical overload protection for use in modular robotic systems. The genderless coupling incorporates a novel safety mechanism that ...
Interesting Engineering

US teen creates origami design strong enough to match a ‘taxi carrying 4,000 elephants’

Miles Wu, 14, from New York City, won the USD 25,000 Thermo Fisher Scientific ASCEND.Miles Wu / Society for Science A 14-year-old student from New York City has cashed in a USD 25,000 prize after ...
ScienceAlert

14-Year-Old Wins Prize For Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times Its Own Weight

While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief. The New York City teen just won $25,000 for a research ...