CNN's Tech for Good program reported on our origami-inspired deployable systems research. We are collaborating with NASA, Penn State, and MMA Design to create a Lidar telescope for sensing for earth or other planets. The goal is to make the telescope small for launch, then to deploy and be large in space.

We collaborated with Derek Muller and his Veritaium YouTube channel for this video, where Derek provides an excellent overview of compliant mechanisms and their advantages. He created the "8 P's of compliant mechanisms" which is a nice summary of the characteristics of compliant mechanisms. 

Mark Rober is a master at making engineering fun! Mark is a former student and we worked together to fulfill his goal of creating the world's smallest Nerf gun. First, we created a compliant mechanism version of a Nerf blaster. Going from a Nerf gun made from over 80 parts to a single-piece compliant mechanism was a feat of engineering itself! We then scaled the compliant mechanism down by a factor of 10, then by a factor of 100 to create the world’s smallest functioning blaster. This is the result of the work of many amazing students and faculty collaborators doing something that’s never been done before. You can also see a BYU produced video “Mark Rober's tiny Nerf blaster created by BYU engineers” which gives an exclusive behind-the-scenes view of the project. 

This video highlights a project that would seem unlikely or even impossible: bulletproof origami. The technology shown here has been licensed to a company for commercial use. The research was also highlighted in the PBS documentary program, NOVA. 

This video is about "developable mechanisms," a new class of mechanisms we discovered and reported in a paper in Science Robotics.

Derek Muller makes a case for origami-inspired engineering. The BYU portion begins at 3:15. 

BYU University Communications created this behind-the-scenes view as Mark Rober and our lab pursue an epic journey to make the world’s tiniest Nerf nano-blaster. University Communications was awarded a “Silver Winner: Science & Technology” Telly Award for the video.

BYU Communications created this video to accompany an exhibition in the BYU Museum of Art that highlighted origami art from around the world and included our artifacts from our research on origami inspired engineering. It was also awarded the People's Choice Award in the “Vizzies” Visualization Challenge sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Popular Science.

This "Science Nation" video highlights some of our origami-inspired engineering research funded by the National Science Foundation. 

Tiny origami-inspired devices are opening up new possibilities for minimally invasive surgery.

This video highlights some of our lab's technology licensed to Intuitive Surgical, a leader in robotic surgery.

We collaborated with microbiology researchers to create tiny nano-devices in a new gene therapy advance: Nanoinjector is used to transfer genes and DNA to new cells.