An Electrically-Powered Origami "Zipper" is Stronger When Wet (1 of 6) (VIDEO)

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A video of the electro-origami actuators made into self-twisting spirals, spider silk-inspired structures, and origami artificial muscles. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 19th, 2018, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Taghavi at University of Bristol in Bristol, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Electro-ribbon actuators and electro-origami robots."

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[Credit: Taghavi <em>et al., Sci. Robot</em>. 3, eaau9795 (2018)]

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