In the realm of microrobotics, small and malleable machines are, in the meme-y words of Mugatu, so hot right now. Scientists appear to be doing everything they can to crack the code behind what it ...

In a major leap for adaptive robotics, researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a programmable robotic sheet that can change shape, move, and grasp ...

For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

The agency just performed a test that uses shape memory alloy to fold a drone’s wings in flight. NASA has created a lightweight shape-shifting metal that could be used to fold aircraft wings–which ...

Long before Korean electronics giants LG and Samsung rolled out smartphones with curved displays in the form of the G Flex and Galaxy Round, the team from the Human Media Lab at Canada's Queen's ...

Spotted by the ever-alert Patently Apple, the US Patent and Trademark Office has this week granted Apple new patents for a “foldable cover and display for an electronic device.” And helpfully, it ...

After being peeled from the platform of a three-dimensional printer, a flat electronic component begins to fold its four legs into position. In just a few minutes, it is fully formed and can stand.

Tired of waiting for Apple to release a folding phone, I recently opted to pick up a Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold. So, of course, not a week after my new handset showed up on my doorstep, credible intel ...

A new algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure. In a 1999 paper, Erik Demaine -- now an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, but then ...