# Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2019
- Speaker: Jamie Paik
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Engineering, Astronomy and space, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_paik_origami_robots_that_reshape_and_transform_themselves)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Taking design cues from origami, robotician Jamie Paik and her team created "robogamis": folding robots made out super-thin materials that can reshape and transform themselves. In this talk and tech demo, Paik shows how robogamis could adapt to achieve a variety of tasks on earth (or in space) and demonstrates how they roll, jump, catapult like a slingshot and even pulse like a beating heart.

## Lectures

1. [Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jamie_paik_origami_robots_that_reshape_and_transform_themselves/af5016caac0e), 13 min (TED's player)