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These bitty bots roll, jump — and even pulse like a beating heart #TEDTalks

Taking design cues from origami, robotician Jamie Paik and her team created “robogamis”: folding robots made out super-thin materials that can reshape and transform themselves. In this talk and tech demo, Paik shows how robogamis could adapt to achieve a variety of tasks on earth (or in space) and demonstrates how they roll, jump, catapult…

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Taking design cues from origami, robotician Jamie Paik and her team created “robogamis”: folding robots made out super-thin materials that can reshape and transform themselves. In this talk and tech demo, Paik shows how robogamis could adapt to achieve a variety of tasks on earth (or in space) and demonstrates how they roll, jump, catapult like a slingshot and even pulse like a beating heart.

4 Comments

  1. @darrellmoore4478

    February 28, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    CLANKER PAPER

  2. @borisregain7512

    March 1, 2026 at 5:27 am

    ETA Transformers please……? 🤔

  3. @SturdyFuture

    March 1, 2026 at 1:05 pm

    Probably goated for spacecraft

  4. @zekeking

    March 1, 2026 at 1:56 pm

    Reminds me of the video game Cubivore for the Nintendo GameCube

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