The Gingerbread Man (Origami Robotics)  Remember the story of the Gingerbread Man who lifted himself out of the baking oven and ran away down the path?  Well, it's happened now: a heat-activated robot folded itself out of its plane packed state, and "scurried away at more than two inches a second". 

For the mathematics behind origami and its application to self-constructing origami robotics, see my May posting  http://bit.ly/1r9CV9P