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A method for building self-folding machines
Abstract
Folding robots and metamaterials: The same principles used to make origami art can make self-assembling robots and tunable metamaterials—artificial materials engineered to have properties that may not be found in nature (see the Perspective by You). Felton et al. made complex self-folding robots from flat templates. Such robots could potentially be sent through a collapsed building or tunnels and then assemble themselves autonomously into their final functional form. Silverberg et al. created a mechanical metamaterial that was folded into a tessellated pattern of unit cells. These cells reversibly switched between soft and stiff states, causing large, controllable changes to the way the material responded to being squashed. Science , this issue p. 644 , p. 647 ; see also p. 623
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- Felton, S., Tolley, M., Demaine, E., Rus, D., & Wood, R.
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- 2014-08-08
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- 345
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- 6197
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- 644-646
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- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
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