The wheels are a three-layer construction based on a thick, flexible composite membrane designed to fold along similar lines to an origami waterbomb. To add structural strength and wear resistance, ...

A joint research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Unmanned Exploration Laboratory (UEL) has developed a transformative wheel capable of navigating the ...

If you thought origami was just a delicate, ornamental art, then come meet these robots. These (deliberately) deformable little wheelers can climb over obstacles, squeeze under crevasses, and ...

A rover-mountable sintering device under development by the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT). This technology can harden the lunar surface to create roads and other ...

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On the 18th, KAIST announced that a team led by Professor Lee Dae-Young of its Space Research Institute & Department of Aerospace Engineering, in collaboration with the Unmanned Exploration Research ...

KAIST-UEL Team Develops “Origami” Airless Wheel to Explore Lunar Caves KAIST-UEL Team Develops “Origami” Airless Wheel to Explore Lunar Caves ...

Beneath the moon's cratered surface lie networks of lava tubes and deep pits, natural caves that could shelter future lunar bases from cosmic radiation and wild temperature swings. These underground ...