Origami artist and physicist Robert J. Lang explains origami in 11 levels of difficulty. From a simple, traditional cicada to an extremely intricate one, watch how Robert J. Lang demonstrates and ...

Robert Lang combines mathematics, science and origami to create art and solve complex engineering problems.

"What we have here is the proof of concept of an integrated system for manufacturing complex origami. It has tremendous potential applications," said Glaucio H. Paulino, a professor at the School of ...

Scientists have developed software that makes it easier to predict the three-dimensional shape that will result from a given DNA template. While the software doesn't fully automate the design process, ...

It is said that folding 1000 paper cranes can grant a wish, but what happens if they’re each just 500 microns big? This is a question for ex-NASA laser scientist Robert Lang, a man who left the space ...

Although it looks small and unassuming, the tiny origami crane sitting in a sample dish in University of Illinois professor Jennifer Lewis' lab heralds a new method for creating complex ...

Michael G. LaFosse has been an origami artist for over four decades and co-founded Origamido Studio, a unique destination for a variety of paper art and origami resources that serves as a hybrid ...

The construction of complex man-made objects--a car, for example, or even a pizza--almost invariably entails what are known as "top-down" processes, in which the structure and order of the thing being ...

(Nanowerk News) By merging the ancient art of origami with 21st century technology, researchers have created a one-step approach to fabricating complex origami structures whose light weight, ...