Originating in ancient Japan as a ceremonial practice based on paper's status as a luxury good, the art of origami, or paper folding, has recently given way to a host of technological breakthroughs. In 2015, MIT researchers debuted a teeny, self-assembling origami robot that could be ingested in the form of a meltable pill and controlled magnetically from outside a person's body. The invention could transform the medical field once it's perfected, with experts hoping doctors can one day use the robots to "deliver medicine, patch wounds, and remove foreign objects from the body," according to Forbes Read more...
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