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August 08, 2014

Robots inspired by origami can fold selves, walk away
Washington (AFP) Aug 07, 2014
It starts out laying flat, like a sheet of paper. Then it springs up, almost lifelike, and folds into moveable parts much like origami art. And then it crawls away. This new kind of robot could someday be used in space exploration, to slide into collapse sites to aid search and rescue, or to speed up manufacturing on assembly lines, experts said Thursday. While this particular machine's march to the world market is still years away, the report in the journal Science said the latest advances open ... read more

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