Finding Practical Applications for Origami

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While we think of origami as art, it increasingly is being used by companies and researchers in space, medicine, robotics, architecture, public safety and the military to solve vexing design problems, often to fit big things into small spaces. Foremost among them is Lang, a passionate proselytizer for the art and the science of origami. Lang’s research papers attracted Larry L. Howell, an engineering professor and researcher at Brigham Young University, after a doctoral student suggested looking into origami to create engineering solutions.

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