With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs ...

Soft robots aim to move and change shape smoothly, but they often rely on bulky motors or external systems. To overcome this, ...

Origami, the art of folding a single sheet of paper to create structures, has also attracted attention in the field of engineering. Miles Wu, a 14-year-old student at Hunter College High School in the ...

Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight Ramsha Waseem - Freelance writer Wu’s innovation won the top prize of $25,000 at the 2025 Thermo Fisher ...

The purpose of today’s post is to provide you with a meticulously curated list featuring some of what I believe are the best origami apps out there. The apps provide a wide variety of video tutorials, ...

Meet the World's First Origami Umbrella | Reinventing the umbrella. Umbrellas are extremely useful objects. They keep you dry when it is raining and in the summer, umbrellas can protect you from the ...

The design of the steel-ribbed umbrella has changed little since it was introduced in the 1850s, but the mechanical engineers and origami experts who made an umbrella that works by folding say they’ve ...

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Abstract: This paper presents a novel origami reflectarray unit-cell based on the Miura-Ori pattern. This origami unit-cell allows for efficient folding/unfolding, high packing efficiency and easy ...

In an inspiring story of young innovation, 14-year-old Miles Wu turns his love for origami into award winning research, creating foldable structures strong enough to aid future disaster relief efforts ...

While most 14-year-olds are busy with schoolwork and hobbies, New York City student Miles Wu has been experimenting with something far more ambitious: using origami engineering to build stronger, ...

While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief. The New York City teen just won $25,000 for a research ...