Self-Folding Robots (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Self-Folding Robots

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A team from Harvard's Wyss Institute, Harvard's SEAS, and MIT built an autonomous robot that starts out as a single composite sheet programmed to fold itself into a complex shape and crawl away without any human intervention.

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Harvard's Wyss Institute

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