Contact: Michael Patrick Rutter
mrutter@seas.harvard.edu
617-496-3815
Harvard University

Movie of Self-folding Sheet in Action

Caption: A programmable sheet self-folds into a boat- and into a plane-shape.

Credit: Robert Wood, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Daniella Rus, MIT/CSAIL.

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