On the occasion of ICRA 2015 conference (International Conference on Robotics and automation), which will take place from 26-30 May in Washington Seattle (USA), researchers from MIT and the TU Munich (Technical University of Munich) showed a tiny robot that folds like origami itself and is able to walk, to swim and to dissolve.

The robot, which consists of a magnet and a PVC sheet, weighs 0,31 grams and has a length of 1.7 cm on a side. Once placed on a hot plate, folds like origami. It can then move at a speed of 3 to 4 centimeters per second through electromagnets. Thus manages to walk into multiple surface types, but it can also swim, to move objects and dissolved in acetone, When he completed his mission.