BYU’s Compliant Mechanisms Research lab recently completed a five-year project for the U.S. Air Force, developing designs for a foldable space antennae array that embodies design principles inspired, ...

BYU's origami-inspired antenna self-deploys for space applications. Produced by BYU Video. It's hard to imagine modern life without cell phones, GPS navigation, wide-spread internet, weather ...

Origami-based designs can be very compact, which is beneficial for space applications as things need to be stowed efficiently. "The product is not only the antenna; to me, the product is the ...

Brigham Young University’s Compliant Mechanisms Research Lab is designing space technology inspired by the ancient art of origami. “How can we go in and look at this art form which is ...

Shutterstock Origami techniques produce stiff but expandable engineering structures with potential applications across industries such as transportation, robotics and space exploration.

an origami pattern that was originally developed for a completely different purpose—compactly packing up solar panels to power satellites (once they’re in space, the origami solar panels unfold).