Origami Inspired Artificial Muscles

[jedishrfu]

Soft robotics has been a promising field of research for years, but these squidgy and flexible creations have been held back by the absence of one important characteristic: strength. Now, scientists from MIT CSAIL and Harvard’s Wyss Institute have come up with a way to give soft robots some power — by outfitting them with rigid origami skeletons.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/27/16705062/soft-robot-muscles-origami-skeleton-mit-harvard

 

[anorlunda]

A picture is worth a thousand words. Moving pictures even more.

This is a fun video.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/origami-revolution.html