A crawling robot driven by multi-stable origami

• Published in: Smart materials and structures Vol. 26; no. 9; pp. 94007 - 94017
• Main Authors: Pagano, Alexander, Yan, Tongxi, Chien, Brian, Wissa, A, Tawfick, S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 01.09.2017
• Subjects: active structures; bistability; origami

Using origami folding to construct and actuate mechanisms and machines offers attractive opportunities from small, scalable, and cheap robots to deployable adaptive structures. This paper presents the design of a bio-inspired origami crawling robot constructed by folding sheets of paper. The origami...