Mechanical metamaterials are structures carefully designed to give rise to unique or unusual physical properties.
Now a team has taken inspiration from origami to create a modular metamaterial system. These units couple twisting movement with compression or expansion, and by combining these modules in different ways the researchers behind this work have found applications across a range of fields, from lightweight dancing robots to mechanical computing.
Read the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08851-0
Now a team has taken inspiration from origami to create a modular metamaterial system. These units couple twisting movement with compression or expansion, and by combining these modules in different ways the researchers behind this work have found applications across a range of fields, from lightweight dancing robots to mechanical computing.
Read the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08851-0
- Category
- Documentary
- Tags
- science, nature video

Be the first to comment