But one of the key hurdles when bringing origami or kirigami to engineering is that these techniques often make things rather ...

Long before screens and styluses, entertainment came in the form of folded paper. One square. No cuts. No glue. Just folds. That’s all it took to create animals, flowers, boats, and birds that felt ...

Dr. Robert J. Lang has been an avid student of origami for more than 40 years and is now recognized as one of the world’s leading masters of the art, with more than 600 designs cataloged and ...

LA CANADA >> Tony Hua tried his hand at origami in the past, but paper cranes and Hello Kitty pale in comparison to the origami-inspired endeavor he’s been a part of at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

They share a love for paper and an even greater love for what their dexterous fingers can make that paper become: an elegant pink rhododendron, a sleek golden dragon, a wide gray elephant's behind.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Robert Lang, who has worked as a physicist and engineer, and who edited a journal on quantum electronics, knows all about subjects like hexagonal symmetry and angle ...

The action that's been reserved for thin, flexible materials is about to get a boost. Researchers studying the ancient art of origami have figured out some new ways to make rigid, thick structures ...

“Computational Origami” is technically a triptych of paper art which is now part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In the three-part work, each piece is connected ...

In a country stacked with folklore and legends, the Japanese reverence for origami cranes stands the test of time. One tradition in particular — “senbazuru” or “a thousand cranes” — rewards patient ...

This isn’t quite how most of us imagined the future: You walk into your local, 24-hour robot-manufacturing store — a sort of latter-day Kinko’s — and describe the kind of robot you want. Maybe it’s a ...

"This show is a props nightmare," says SF Playhouse Artistic Director Bill English. The most unusual demand of "Animals Out of Paper," now in its West Coast premiere at the Playhouse, is that Rajiv ...