Through origami engineering, Hagiwara is also on the verge of reviving an ancient Japanese symbol of nobility: the hand-painted folding fan. To paint a fan, ancient Japanese artists had to figure ...

What's more, this group believes the ancient art holds elegant solutions ... Then, in the 1950s, new techniques and designs created by Japanese origami artist Akira Yoshizawa started being ...

This self-folding gripper upgrades unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by adding grasping capabilities, taking inspiration from the ancient Japanese art of folding paper — origami. Of late ...

His short film "Origami" is the first Japanese production to win a Student Academy Award. The work is a paean to his first passion — but more than that, it’s a celebration of the human touch ...

The idea started with Takuo Toda, president of the Origami Paper Airplane Association in Japan, who asked Suzuki a few years ago to study the possibility of a paper airplane re-entering the atmosp ...