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Origami for the everyday

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Origami engineering has long held the promise of complex and futuristic machines. A new foldable haptics system shows that this paradigm can be functional as well.

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Fig. 1: Origami has inspired many computational tools and fabrication techniques, collectively known as origami engineering.

Top right, NASA/JPL-Caltech; middle right, Noah T. Jafferis and E. Farrell Helbling, Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory; bottom right, reproduced from ref. 1, Springer Nature Ltd.

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