The Pop It Up
The whole pop-up phenomenon just got a bit more literal, with the debut of tiny robots inspired by pop-up books. [Image: The pop-up robot sheet, developed at Harvard].Equal parts origami and electrical engineering, each robot "has 137 folding joints," PopSci explains. "The assembly scaffold, which has folds of its own, performs 22 origami-style folds, resulting in a fully formed robot you can pop out and turn on." Science Daily points out that this "will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet."[Image: A close-up of the...
Published By: Bldg Blog - Sunday, 19 February
