At ICRA 2015 in Seattle on May 28, 2015, researchers from MIT demonstrated an untethered miniature origami robot that self-folds, walks, swims, and degrades. That’s the title of their paper, in fact, and they delivered on all of those promises: from a flat sheet with a magnet on it, their robot folds itself up in just a few seconds, is immediately ready to zip around on land or water driven by magnetic fields, and then when you’ve run out of things to do with it, drive it into a tank of acetone and it’ll dissolve. This is the first time that a robot has been able to demonstrate a complete life cycle like this, and eventually, it’ll be doing it inside your body.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/origami-robot-folds-itself-up-does-cool-stuff-dissolves-into-nothing It seems to me that this is the cutting edge of a future of more use of origami and technology. This link is to the entire paper for the self folding robot. http://shu21th.sakura.ne.jp/file/ICRA2015v26Final.pdf [email protected] Kathy Knapp 1014 N Parkside Dr. Peoria, Illinois, USA Do well your part today. - Juliette Gordon Low
