An origami design for metamaterial robots
Bendy, twisty and collapsable origami towers could make temperature controlling panels, or, dancing robots
Mechanical metamaterials are structures carefully designed to give rise to unique or unusual physical properties.
Now a team has taken inspiration from origami to create a modular metamaterial system. These units couple twisting movement with compression or expansion, and by combining these modules in different ways the researchers behind this work have found applications across a range of fields, from lightweight dancing robots to mechanical computing.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01284-9
This story originally appeared on: Nature - Author:Dan Fox
