Flat Packable Robot Invented, Threatens Ikea's Dominance.

Researchers at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a modular, origami-inspired robot called Mori3 that can fold and unfold itself like a piece of flat-pack Ikea furniture. The robot can turn itself into a huge number of three-dimensional shapes and is an ideal candidate for assisting astronauts inside the cramped environment of a spacecraft. Mori3’s biggest selling point is its versatility, and the researchers are investigating whether multiple robots could attach themselves to each other to be even more useful.