A joint research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Unmanned Exploration ...

You can’t reinvent the wheel, it is often said. To which researchers from Seoul National University, Harvard University, and Hankook Tire and Technology Co. go, “hold my beer.” This origami wheel has ...

Exploring the Moon’s surface is challenging enough, but reaching what lies beneath it is even harder. Deep pits and long lava ...

On the 18th, KAIST announced that a team led by Professor Lee Dae-Young of its Space Research Institute & Department of ...

DAEJEON, SOUTH KOREA – A joint research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the ...

In a recent study published in Science Robotics, a research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ...

Think of origami and you may imagine delicate paper cranes or fortune tellers. But the art of folding paper to create 3D shapes has been used to make a flexible robot. Roboticists have shown off two ...

For future Moon missions, South Korean scientists created a small rover with a special wheel that can expand and contract like kinetic art.

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If you thought origami was just a delicate, ornamental art, then come meet these robots. These (deliberately) deformable little wheelers can climb over obstacles, squeeze under crevasses, and ...