WPI Associate Professor Cagdas Onal demonstrates the use of "soft robotics" in a robotic arm that uses origami-inspired design to create a flexible, safe robotic arm to assist the handicapped.

The arm uses origami for its construction ... "If you had a robot that was working next to a human in order to be able to pick things up, if you are using a fairly sturdy, rigid robot, if it ...

Engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are trying to change that, with a new robotic arm that has been inspired by the Japanese paper art of origami ... next to a human in order to be ...

making the change easy to detect," Guareschi says. The relatively large size of the lilypad origami also means that the system can readily accommodate and detect larger molecules, such as large ...