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“#Origami comes to life with new shape-changing materials<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Imagine opening up a book of nature photos only to see a kaleidoscope of graceful butterflies flutter out from the page.<\/p>\n

Such fanciful storybooks might soon be possible thanks to the work of a team of designers and engineers at CU Boulder’s ATLAS Institute. The group is drawing from new advancements in the field of soft robotics to develop shape-changing objects that are paper-thin, fast-moving and almost completely silent.<\/p>\n

The researchers’ early creations, which they’ve dubbed “Electriflow,” include origami cranes that can bend their necks, flower petals that wiggle with the touch of a button, and yes, fluttering insects.<\/p>\n

“Usually, books about butterflies are static,” said Purnendu, a graduate student at CU Boulder who is leading the project and who goes by a singular name. “But could you have a butterfly flap its wings within a book? We’ve shown that it’s possible.”<\/p>\n

He and his colleagues presented their results recently at the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2021 Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)<\/a> conference.<\/p>\n


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