Inspired by the paper-folding art of origami, North Carolina State University engineers have discovered a way to make a single plastic cubed structure transform into more than 1,000 configurations ...

The following is a transcript for the video: Narrator: These cubes? They're no ordinary building blocks. They're built to collapse, expand, and change shapes infinitely. And they're called Ghostkubes.

Researchers have developed a way to assemble and pre-program tiny structures made from microscopic cubes -- 'microbot origami' -- to change their shape when actuated by a magnetic field and then, ...

image: GIF of magnetic field assembly and actuation of microcubes to make origami and microbot prototypes. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 4, 2017, issue of Science Advances ...

Science and art come together in compelling ways for Jeannine Mosely. A software engineer at Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, she contributed to the development of cell-phone technology as a graduate ...

Inspired by the paper-folding art of origami, engineers have discovered a way to make a single plastic cubed structure transform into more than 1,000 configurations using only three active motors.