Robot Morphs on Demand Using 'Self-folding' Origami (6 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Robot Morphs on Demand Using 'Self-folding' Origami (6 of 9)

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GIF of the walking bot's "transformation" into "boat-bot." This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 27 2017 issue of Science Robotics, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Miyashita at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Robotic metamorphosis by origami exoskeletons."

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Miyashita <i>et al., Sci. Robot. </i> 2, eaao4369 (2017)

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