Beneath the moon's cratered surface lie networks of lava tubes and deep pits, natural caves that could shelter future lunar ...

You can’t reinvent the wheel, it is often said. To which researchers from Seoul National University, Harvard University, and Hankook Tire and Technology Co. go, “hold my beer.” This origami wheel has ...

If you thought origami was just a delicate, ornamental art, then come meet these robots. These (deliberately) deformable little wheelers can climb over obstacles, squeeze under crevasses, and ...

Think of origami and you may imagine delicate paper cranes or fortune tellers. But the art of folding paper to create 3D shapes has been used to make a flexible robot. Roboticists have shown off two ...

DAEJEON, SOUTH KOREA – A joint research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Unmanned Exploration Laboratory (UEL) has developed a transformative wheel ...

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A joint research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Unmanned Exploration Laboratory (UEL) has developed a transformative wheel capable of navigating the ...