Origami engineering has long held the promise of complex and futuristic machines. A new foldable haptics system shows that this paradigm can be functional as well.
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Felton, S. Origami for the everyday. Nat Mach Intell 1, 555–556 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0129-x
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