Something special about origami these days. Maybe atom-thin metamaterials that are more 2D than 3D. Maybe protein folding. Maybe because it can produce extremely complex forms out of relatively simple algorithms. Origami takes this place between flat and voluminous, delicate and robust (ever see those paper sandals?), and now between ancient and modern. Here we see origami helping to make super-strong soft robots, but previously there's been examples of it being used in programmable shapeshifting and DNA nanomanufacturing.
Origami robot muscles lift 1,000 times its own weight
Jan 2018, BBC
Artificial muscles which allow soft robots to lift up to 1,000 times their own weight have been developed by researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
Inspired by origami, the muscles can be programmed a range of motions including twisting and rotation. -BBC
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Post Script
Origami Supreme
Network Address, 2016
DNA Nanomanufacturing
Network Address, 2012
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