From: TED Talks Daily - Wednesday Jul 10, 2019 11:14 pm
Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves
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Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves

12:26 minutes · TED2019

Taking design cues from origami, robotician Jamie Paik and her team created "robogamis": folding robots made out super-thin materials that can reshape and transform themselves. In this talk and tech demo, Paik shows how robogamis could adapt to achieve a variety of tasks on earth (or in space) and demonstrates how they roll, jump, catapult like a slingshot and even pulse like a beating heart.

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