At 20 pounds, the new kayak is 36% lighter than Oru’s current lightest boat, The Bay ST, and it’s 34% smaller than The Bay ST—both when boxed and fully unfurled.

Origami, the art of paper folding, boosts focus and concentration. Daily origami exercises improve mental clarity and ...

Prior to the attempt, the world record for “Largest Display of Origami Boats” was 16,343. The confirmed origami boat count on May 30 was 23,689.

Origami was originally the Japanese art of paper folding, but for the last decade the company Oru Kayak has been folding polypropylene sheets into boats modeled after Greenland-style kayaks, with ...

According to Schult, though, his CLR Kayak weighs less, folds down smaller, and can be set up quicker – whereas Oru's boats mostly take between three and 15 minutes, Daniel tells us that his is ...

Researchers at MIT have created a "shape-shifting" origami robot that is able to automatically fold itself into a boat or a plane.

Evgueni Filipov's civil engineering lab at the University of Michigan is using the principles of origami to design tiny robots and deployable bridges and a lot in between.