2 papers
cs.CE2026
Modular fabrication and design of thick rigid-foldable origami metamaterials
Sunao Tomita, Hiroki Kobayashi, Shoko Arita +4
Origami metamaterials offer significant potential for stiff deployable structures However, fabricating load-bearing cellular structures from thick panels introduces geometric inter…
cs.CE2026
Automated design of soft-rigid hybrid robots for dynamic locomotion
Hiroki Kobayashi, Yuki Takaha, Changyoung Yuhn +4
Rigid-bodied robots often lack compliance needed to adapt to unstructured environments, while fully soft robots, though highly adaptable, struggle with scalability and load capacit…