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Briefing
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- Battery-Free Folding Robots – Team of researchers designed robots capable of complex, repeatable movements solely powered through wireless magnetic field, unlike current bulkier robots with limited functionality
- Researcher Team – Members from Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University
- Origami Design – Based on Japanese origami principle, robots are flat and thin plastic tetrahedrons, with trangles connected by hinges, which are coils made of shape-memory alloy (SMA) that can recover original shape after deformation by being heated
- Potential Applications – Can help further advancement of biomedical tools and telecommunication devices, especially with further miniaturization
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