Folding Tech: Using Origami and Nature to Revolutionize Technology

by Karen Kenney and Karen Latchana Kenney

Book Overview

Space probes, self-assembling robots, crash-absorbing cars, and designer proteins all have one thing in common: their use of folding technologies. To develop these technologies, engineers are taking inspiration from an unusual source--origami, the ancient art of paper folding. Examine origami's origins, how it intersects with mathematics, and how it became a tool to solve some of the most complicated challenges in engineering, architecture, technology,...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541533046
• ISBN13: 9781541533042
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary