Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

And its creators have hinted at an even more impressive type of base ORIGAMI-style space homes that spring off the ground on Mars could house future visitors to the red planet. These hi-tech habitats ...

Nanoscale kirigami inspired silicon metamaterial uses a cut and fold mesh to tune structural colour, smoothly shifting reflected light from green to yellow to red. A metamaterial reflects different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of engineers in Montréal has reinvented the parachute using kirigami, the ancient art of paper cutting. (CREDIT: Frédérick ...

Engineers from Polytechnique Montréal have unveiled a new parachute concept based on kirigami, the Japanese art of folding and cutting. The design is simple, robust, and low-cost, with potential to ...

Abstract: Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT)-based analysis allows exhaustive reasoning over complex distributed control plane routing behaviors, enabling verification of converged routing states ...

Image showing how the team applied their method to map the internal trajectories of the rotating units in kirigami specimens. Credit: Qiao et al. Image showing how the team applied their method to map ...