Engineering with Origami

Origami is inspiring a plethora of new engineering designs. Try yourself: Thanks Audible! Start listening with a 30-day trial and your first audiobook, plus two Audible Originals free when you go to or text veritasium to 500500 Huge thanks to: Dr. Robert Lang Prof. Larry Howell On first glance it’s surprising that origami -- a centuries old art of folding paper to achieve particular aesthetics -- is applicable to engineering. But upon closer consideration there are a lot of reasons methods developed for paper folding are also applicable to engineering: origami allows you to take a flat sheet of material and convert it to almost any shape only by folding. Plus for large flat structures, origami provides a way of shrinking dimensions while ensuring simply deployment - this is particularly useful for solar arrays in space applications. Furthermore, motions design