This robot paper plane designer (really a robot arm fashioned with silicone grippers) can run through this whole process without human feedback. [Related: How to make the world’s best paper ...

Paper airplanes helped early engineers and scientists ... “Small-scale flying robots [could] do things like ride on the wind rather than having some kind of engine or spinning rotors like ...

The history of the first paper airplane is largely debated. According to the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y., some believe the earliest paper airplanes came from China with ...

A Swiss village with about 300 residents evacuated when part of a nearby mountain began to crumble. A glacier collapsed, ...

The world record for the farthest flight by paper airplane has been broken by three aerospace engineers with a paper aircraft that flew a grand total of 289 feet, 9 inches (88 meters), nearly the ...

Today: new insights into the aerodynamics of paper airplanes reveal the key to smooth gliding. Drop a flat piece of paper and it will flutter and tumble through the air as it falls, but a well ...

Although highly repetitive tasks are considered best suited to be performed by robots, even highly specialized jobs such as flying an airplane are at risk. A team of engineers and researchers in ...