Bioinspiration & biomimeticsWingsAnimalAnimalsInsectaBiomimetics
Earwig wing-inspired bistable origami: non-Euclidean units with soft joints.
Yuanyuan Li, Yao Qu, Xiaohui Zhang, Qian Zhang, Jian Feng, Jianguo Cai, Cecilia Laschi
Published: 202510.1088/1748-3190/ae224e
Abstract
Origami-inspired folding enables structures to achieve multiple stable configurations, but predicting and controlling these states remain challenging. In nature, insects such as the earwig (Forficula auricularia) utilize non-Euclidean folding princip…
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