Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto.

(Nanowerk News) If you want to build a fully functional nanosized robot, you need to incorporate a host of capabilities, from complicated electronic circuits and photovoltaics to sensors and antennas.

Scientists have created a micron-sized memory actuators that allow atomically sized 2D materials to fold into 3D. How so? Through a quick voltage jolt! To demonstrate this capability, scientists ...

The world's smallest origami bird — which is just 60 microns wide, or 20 times smaller than a single grain of sand — has been created by researchers from the US. Made from sheets only some 30 atoms ...

What you see here is the da Vinci Surgical System, a pair of remote controlled arobotic arms design for keyhole surgery, folding an origami bird. This seemingly frivolous use for the kit is to ...

The action that's been reserved for thin, flexible materials is about to get a boost. Researchers studying the ancient art of origami have figured out some new ways to make rigid, thick structures ...

If you've wanted to learn origami but never got around to checking out any library books on the topic, the massive collection of origami tutorials at Origami Club can help get you started. Origami is ...

For the first time, scientists have developed a smart material that can be programmed multiple times to fold itself into complex shapes — without being melted down first. That means that a short flash ...