These bitty bots roll, jump — and even pulse like a beating heart #TEDTalks

Imagine if you were to have a intelligent sheet that can selffold into any form it wants any time. And that's what I've been working on. And I call this robotic origami roboami. 10 years later with my group of ninja origami robotic researchers, we have a new generation of robogamis. This one actually navigates through different terrains autonomously. So when it's a dry and flat land it crawls and if it meets a rough terrain it starts rolling. It's the same robot but depending on which terrain it meets it activates different sequence of actuators that's on board and once it meets an obstacle it jumps over it. It does this by storing an energy in it each of legs and releasing it and catapulting like a slingshot. For robo gamies, there's no one fixed shape nor task.