Origami—the Japanese art of folding paper—could be the next frontier in innovative materials. Practiced in Japan since the ...

However, researchers at Carnegie Mellon have found a way to harness that tendency to warp with heat to make self-folding structures like those seen in the video below. There’s a paper about how ...

A young student has crafted a groundbreaking origami dress, transforming fabric and paper into a striking artistic ...

Origami, which dates back to the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan, is the act of folding paper into decorative shapes and objects. Paper was very expensive to produce back then, so this was ...