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Watch Rocket Lab launch Japanese 'origami' satellite, 7 other spacecraft to orbit tonight

Rocket Lab will launch eight Japanese satellites to orbit tonight (April 22), including one that features an origami-folded ...
The Independent on MSN

Japan launches 'origami' satellite that unfurls to 25 times its size

Japan launches ‘origami’ satellite that unfurls to 25 times its size - JAXA has been testing different origami techniques for ...
MLive

In an engineering lab at the University of Michigan, tiny robots, boats and bridges inspired by origami

The tiny robots start out flat, thin wafers of layered silicon, gold and plastic. It’s the heat created by an electric current that makes them fold along etched grooves, bending themselves into ...
NewsBytes

Rocket Lab launching 8 Japanese satellites tonight from New Zealand

Rocket Lab is set to launch eight Japanese satellites, including an innovative 'origami' satellite, from New Zealand tonight ...
The Conversation

Curved origami offers a creative route to making robots and other mechanical devices

Building robotic grippers that can firmly grasp heavy objects and also gently grasp delicate ones usually requires complicated sets of gears, hinges and motors. But it turns out that it’s also ...