Small robotic devices have been developed by researchers at the University of Washington that can modify the way they fly through the air by folding themselves into a more compact form while they are ...

The days of waiting for a swallowed item to pass through the body may soon be gone, thanks to a tiny pill-size origami robot. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers recently developed a ...

Just as origami can transform a piece of paper into a three-dimensional work of art, scientists have now used the techniques to transform thin, flimsy materials like polyester into incredibly strong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marking a significant advancement in molecular robotics, researchers have created custom-designed and programmable nanostructures ...

An ingestible origami robot is capable of unfolding itself from a swallowed capsule and crawling across a person’s stomach wall to remove swallowed objects or patch injuries. The research group of ...

If a soft-bodied robot uses rigid actuators to move its body, then it isn't really soft now, is it? An experimental new caterpillar-inspired bot gets around that conundrum by using soft, collapsible ...

Henry Bodkin is The Telegraph’s Jerusalem Correspondent, based in Israel. He has reported on the Israel-Hamas war, terrorism, Israeli politics, life in the Palestinian territories and Middle East ...