(Forwarded on behalf of Yahoo user Sharon Laubach <wereg...@yahoo.com>)
Here's a cool article about a pair of projects presented at the recent International Conference on Robotics & Automation utilizing origami-inspired wheels. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robots-get-flexible-and-torqued-up-with-deformable-origami-wheels - Sharon