Building an origami-inspired robot

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Doctoral candidate Chang Liu works on origami robots with high school students in the Young Scholars Program, Gabriela Paz-Soldan (Algonquin Regional High School) and Luke Schlatter (Brookline High School) in Professor Sam Felton’s Lab in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Chang Liu, a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering, shows high school students a robot he created based on the Japanese art of origami. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

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