Origami, the Japanese art of folding flat sheets of paper into three-dimensional figures, is the creative spark behind a new ...

Researchers recently shared details on creating foldable, self-locking structures by using multi-material 3D printing. These origami-inspired designs can transition between flat and three-dimensional ...

Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material properties of a single geometry in ways that are sometimes stronger than those of ...

The first of a series of slides titled, "Opening new sciences through origami" is seen. (Mainichi/All photos provided by Hokkaido University associate professor Kaori Kuribayashi-Shigetomi) TOKYO -- ...