CU Boulder researchers are using simple "paper" robots to teach kids basic engineering principles and inspire creativity. Watch the video.

In what may be the birth of cheap, easy-to-make robots, researchers have created complex machines that transform themselves from little more than a sheet of paper and plastic into walking automatons.

This robot paper plane designer (really a robot arm fashioned with silicone grippers) can run through this whole process without human feedback. A video of the robot at work.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University use conductive 3-D-printed material and paper to build actuators for use in delicate little robots.