Fly take-off

Live Science
A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet. Devised by engineers at Harvard University, the ingenious layering and folding process enables the rapid fabrication of not just microrobots, but a broad range of electromechanical devices...

Time
It looks like footage taken from a deep-sea submersible. A small creature fills and deflates sacs to crawl across the ground, not a bone present in its translucent body. It’s not organic; in fact, it’s a robot designed by Dr. George Whitesides and his team at Harvard. In the future, soft robots like it will do everything from search disaster sites to inspect our internal organs to assist the elderly...