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Engineering with Origami

Veritasium - 2019-10-04

Origami is inspiring a plethora of new engineering designs. Try yourself: https://ve42.co/Origami
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Huge thanks to:
Dr. Robert Lang https://langorigami.com
Prof. Larry Howell https://www.compliantmechanisms.byu.edu/

On first glance it's surprising that origami -- a centuries old art of folding paper to achieve particular aesthetics -- is applicable to engineering. But upon closer consideration there are a lot of reasons methods developed for paper folding are also applicable to engineering: origami allows you to take a flat sheet of material and convert it to almost any shape only by folding. Plus for large flat structures, origami provides a way of shrinking dimensions while ensuring simply deployment - this is particularly useful for solar arrays in space applications. Furthermore, motions designed to take advantage of the flexibility of paper can also be used to form compliant mechanisms for engineering like the kaleidocycle. Since the principles of origami are scalable, mechanisms can also be dramatically miniaturized.

Some of the work shown is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant No. EFRI-ODISSEI-1240417. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Special thanks to Patreon supporters:
Alfred Wallace, Arjun Chakroborty, Bryan Baker, Chris Vargas, Chuck Lauer Vose, DALE HORNE, Donal Botkin, halyoav, James Knight, Jasper Xin, Joar Wandborg, Kevin Beavers, kkm, Leah Howard, Lyvann Ferrusca, Michael Krugman, Noel Braganza, Pindex, Ron Neal, Sam Lutfi, Stan Presolski, Tige Thorman

Edited by
Jonny Hyman, Isaac Frame, and Derek Muller

Music by
Jonny Hyman

Just Some Bigfoot With Internet Access - 2019-10-04

Y'all ever just like... Spend 7 years making an origami cactus

GoodBoiDaYTer DaGamer - 2021-02-08

17 years

A'shaun Kelly - 2021-02-09

Who hasn't

Jim Smith - 2021-02-15

Yea. I’m three months old.

Ry Horn - 2021-02-20

Yeah especially on tuesdays

Leslie Rivera - 2021-02-24

This is the 3rd time i saw you

Taran - 2020-06-01

When you want to be a artist but your parents want you to be an engineer

Izzul Azrizal - 2021-01-31

@Wombat you're making it complicated

edward bananahands - 2021-02-13

as a child i was skilled with origami, my parents wanted me to be an engineer, as an adult i grow weed.

NovaRanger - 2021-02-21

and we end up working in an IT company.. attending calls.....

Aditi Saini - 2021-03-24

Engineering can be full of art. Please do not go after the stereotype of art, go after the soul of art which is creation and creativity itself.
You don't need to be disappointed by picking engineering.
Engineering can be full of art.
You can be an artist anywhere anytime. Life is long enough for that.

edward bananahands - 2021-03-24

@Aditi Saini nah shut up idiot, u obvs have no idea how the real world works. ur clearly a sheltered privileged tosser

Juff Mou - 2020-05-09

Talk about smart people on earth. It is so pleasing and satisfying to watch. Thank you, I am so sharing it.

Leo Corral - 2020-11-09

Where else would they be?

OrigamiNoob103 - 2020-11-09

@Ahn Rho, Human CPU processor search up Origami flasher Big Bang by Jeremy Shafer

ST33LFIX3R - 2020-11-10

@OrigamiNoob103
I certainly will be. Thank heavens for YouTube algorithms because I would never have purposely searched for it.
My attention was subdued immediately. Thanks.

Aby - 2020-11-30

Like kardashians video right? They are smart too.

Bennett Cole - 2021-02-12

@Aby no

MrShoopdawoop97 - 2020-03-02

"Hm." My man's about to grow a huge nose and start trading emeralds.

W1ther - 2020-07-06

such an original and funny comment

Haliki - 2020-08-09

@W1ther lol

Unreal pigz gaming - 2020-08-26

@W1ther you too

Mihail Milev - 2020-12-28

@Unreal pigz gaming lol

Balaji Sahu - 2021-02-01

was gonna play MC after this video lol

easytomove - 2020-08-16

Me : *doing art to escape from math
Dr. Robert : origami is a math
Me : *oh crap

ꨓꨕ་ꨚꨝ་ꨆꨈ ꪒꪲꪐꪬ - 2020-09-03

asians: Reorado Dikapurio fesu

Prithish S - 2021-01-29

Hahaha Math is omnipresent. Btw I'm surprised that a art major is watching Veritasium.

oldschoolman 144 - 2021-02-15

Math is universal, it's the key to everything.

Lilya Holmes - 2021-03-14

@Prithish S Yt recommendation are pretty random sometimes

Sergi Monserrat Mascaró - 2019-10-04

"I made an origami cactus"
"What did it cost?"
"Everything"

sdv Blue - 2019-10-14

Jakob man, what are you talking about, we’re talking about origami

Karl O - 2019-11-10

At least, your family life.
Daddy is only gone, to fold his cactus or fiddles with his little Violinist

smelly eggs - 2020-04-03

@David Adams wooosh

David Adams - 2020-04-03

@smelly eggs
😴

DesPaciTO_sPAjdER - 2020-11-03

"what did it cost"
"a whole meter square piece of paper"

Alsadek Alkhayer - 2020-10-05

I envy clever people who found their path. They sure offered the humanity something

IthinkthereforeIam OrsoIthought - 2021-02-12

@Alsadek Alkhayer The same to you friend.

Aiden Lee - 2021-02-15

An unexpectedly wholesome and positive ending. Well done!

Alsadek Alkhayer - 2021-02-15

@Aiden Lee ☺️ we're grown-ups, I believe that should be the norm of any conversation

Htopher Ollem - 2021-02-15

@Alsadek Alkhayer I am imagining the other individual fancies that they are the thought police! I'm sure troll farms will have a good crop this year (sad but true)

[GD] Veirce - 2021-02-23

Then you think about NASA, who have landed rovers on Mars and planning to make a space pit stop on the moon by 2024

Atlas - 2020-09-01

I misplaced Dwayne Johnson’s cutting tool for the origami workshop...

I can’t believe I lost the Rock’s Paper Scissors...

Kylee Smalley - 2020-10-08

Kirigami - Paper Cutting

Kellie Lawson - 2020-11-28

"Hm." My man's about to grow a huge nose and start trading emeralds.

jeetpal singh - 2020-12-09

Smooth

Blob - 2021-01-05

nice

James Swanson - 2021-02-27

Dad? Is that you?

AgentG5 - 2020-04-28

I went into surgery using the Da Vinci device for my kidneys about 6 months ago and where I would’ve had a long cut from my stomach all the way to the back of my kidney, I know have 3 tiny incisions on my stomach. It is barely noticeable and I’m glad these types of surgeries and robots are improving!

DavyJones - 2020-10-11

Bet they're expensive.

Shiva Cruz - 2020-10-13

How much did you pay?

AgentG5 - 2020-10-13

Shiva Cruz roughly $6000

AgentG5 - 2020-10-13

DavyJones yea, they are pretty expensive

Sho Tor - 2020-11-29

“We were working with the people who did the DaVinci surgical robot...”
angry Michael reeves noises

The Terminal Stupidity Variety Channel - 2020-05-12

“We were working with the people who did the DaVinci surgical robot...”
angry Michael reeves noises

Kārlis Kalvāns - 2021-03-24

Lol

Kārlis Kalvāns - 2021-03-24

Lol

Kārlis Kalvāns - 2021-03-24

Lol

Kārlis Kalvāns - 2021-03-24

@ExDeeXD Music Lol

The Terminal Stupidity Variety Channel - 2021-03-24

@Kārlis Kalvāns don’t push it

Neurofied Yamato - 2020-03-09

I love it when science look back at traditional low tech methods. Sometimes we are too obsessed with new and complex technology when a simpler solution is right in front of us for centuries.

Warren Hall - 2020-09-07

Often the method chosen is driven by other factors and priorities that tend to force a new and complex technology to be chosen over a simpler solution. Similar to the story of U.S.'s expensive NASA R&D effort to develop a pen that works in zero gravity for astronauts to use while in space. The Soviet solution was to have astronauts use a pencil.

LucielStarz123 - 2020-10-01

Warren Hall the story for that was debunked. Of course NASA has used pencil. But the reason why they poured so much money into the invention/ development of a “space pen” - was because pencil were made of graphites, and prone to breaking off. A tiny sliver of graphite can cause major explosion, especially in an airtight space-craft. This was why there’s a need for a pen that can work in any environment and not create harm.
Hence, don’t take any story at face value before learning the full reason why behind it.

Geo VII - 2020-10-06

I understand your sentiment, but hen you think about it these methods are neither traditional nor low tech. The materials and concept are simple, but the application and design are quite complex. Granted, there's nothing being done here that couldn't have been done by a traditional Japanese origami artist given enough time and paper, but there was simply no incentive for them to do so because the machinery they would have been designing this for did not exist, and many of the items being fabricated here are being built based on principles of folding and mechanics that weren't discovered until someone actually did research into them. They even demonstrated that many designs were based on variations of fundamental folding patterns that, on their own, wouldn't have produced anything of immediate artistic merit, which would have discouraged a traditional artisan from exploring them further. It took industrial need and industrial resources in order for these ideas to finally be implemented.

EDIT: Case in point at 12:06... that seems pretty high-tech to me.

Donbros - 2020-10-09

Low tech ~= optimised. Optimised is far from simple

swami dude - 2020-10-10

Most designs were developped the last century they said in the beginning

Hazique Khan - 2020-10-08

Plot twist: He was wearing an origami T-shirt made of paper

Darwin Samonte - 2021-01-22

Hmm!

Jez Fumbles - 2020-03-06

Robert Lang absolutely blew me away. His brevity was intense. This guy should be teaching, teaching anything. I never had any high school teacher or university professor even half as engaging as this guy. Just amazing

Clive W - 2020-04-23

Hmm

43ten - 2020-05-24

Clive W 😂😂😂

devaJ - 2021-01-04

Who

Sara Cole - 2020-06-01

I really want an elliptical infinity lamp... they aren't sold anywhere I looked.
Edit: Nevermind! Just search 'origami table lamp' instead of its actual name! The internet is perplexing.

Alex aoeu256 - 2020-08-22

You could print it out as well maybe

L N - 2019-10-05

"I made this cactus from one sheet of paper in 7 years."
"Hm."
"This design saved a freight company millions of dollars."
"Hm."
"Look at this violin guy wiggle his arm."
"Fantastic!"

Rakib Amin - 2021-01-09

@Inexpressable your name intrigues me

Inexpressable - 2021-01-09

@Rakib Amin a misspelling of Shpongle's album title 'Tales of the Inexpressible'. somehow the way I spelt it seems more correct, as you would say you aren't able to express something, inexpress-able

Marli J - 2021-01-20

@Shadow God its called a meme

Marli J - 2021-01-20

@Dont Mansion its innoventional cous it is help open more possibilities to technology

NovaRanger - 2021-02-21

Yes.. I too was wondering about this.. hm.

Rajat Yadav - 2021-01-08

Watching this just reminds me, how many really smart people doing their thing without even us being aware........

Victor Marley - 2020-03-01

"and this is a light assembled wormhole origami"

"hmm..."

ExDeeXD Music - 2020-10-08

bRuH

Christopher Dibbs - 2020-05-20

Anyone: *says anything that's incredibly astounding*
Veritasium: "Hmm..."

Warden294 - 2020-10-09

This is how they gonna make Optimus prime

Tofumang - 2019-10-04

Is no one going to talk about how absolutely mind-blowing the cactus origami is

axalara555 - 2020-05-20

Take this comment as a like, didn't want to to destroy the 1111 likes you currently have :D

Asura - 2020-06-27

Hmm

supertubemind - 2020-07-23

@frenchiveruti It's a prickly subject!

Mike 739 - 2020-07-27

Simon Tay fun fact, it took 7 years to design it, but as of now people have folded it in 1 month or less

Darwin Samonte - 2021-01-22

Hmm!

Fantse Rishea - 2020-10-14

No one:

This guy whenever they explain something to him: "hm"

Abhishek Gourav - 2020-08-06

Folding paper virtually into any shape....

Hmmm..time to fold me a girlfriend...

Robert Weekley - 2021-02-28

You'll need a Large Sheet, of Very Interesting Material!
😁🤭

F4TA1 3RR0R - 2021-03-24

I'm just imagining that one day I'll be able to, in a fit of rage, unfold someone's entire house.

oGrasshoppero - 2020-07-04

I'm Level 0: The only paper I fold is toilet paper before I wipe my butt...

Laundry Lurker - 2020-10-09

And some people can't even do that

Xytrha - 2020-10-11

@Laundry Lurker which means im level 1-

Laundry Lurker - 2020-10-12

@Xytrha yes lol

Perry Woodman - 2019-10-04

I've never wanted to touch a cactus more.

Anant Nigam - 2019-10-05

Me too

Steve Thea - 2019-10-05

@Ethan Moore ain't that the same guy from FLEXIBLE NON COMPLIANT DEVICE? 6:56

Ethan Moore - 2019-10-05

Steve Thea indeed it is.

Asian_Koopa - 2020-08-12

@James Flanagan who lit toph on fire?

Iris - 2020-08-19

Cant relate

Takashi New - 2020-09-03

Everyone in the comments: "He KeEpS SaYiNg HMMMM"
Me: "ummm... microscopic origami bird?"

Monir Hasan - 2020-10-09

iNtErstInG

James - 2020-10-21

"How long did that take to make"

me: a year

Him: "That took me seven years to make"

me: christ almighty

Darwin Samonte - 2021-01-22

Hmm!

S - 2021-02-20

"Mmmmmm~ "
- When my brain can't process what i am seeing.

Teck'd - 2020-11-12

8:45

Everyone eating: "MOM I'M THROWING UP!"

Me: ". . . huh."

Tafellappen - 2019-10-05

“7 years” as he puts it back in its box

Justadud - 2020-05-12

William Shakespeare it’s ok bro I will sound ridiculous for you

Femboyfoxxo - 2020-05-23

@Roger Stewart
Uh oh baby dropped his pacifier.

dat damndog - 2020-10-08

@Roger Stewart if he had fun while making it (which he probably did have) its not a waste of time

OrigamiNoob103 - 2020-10-11

I use a bag

Optimicist - 2021-02-12

@Roger Stewart you sound like a frustrated midget that never on his life would come to something like the origami cactus

Hashir Easa - 2020-08-28

Us: “are you an engineer a doctor or a scientist?”
Veritasium:”yes”

Joe - 2020-06-06

11:15 is where it starts to get interesting to me.

samlali youssef - 2021-03-23

soooo Transformers are just origami, and they could actually exist "Mind Blown!!!!"

angelo - 2021-02-02

"That took seven years from start to finish"
-can we see if it floats?! Please!

Anshul Gupta - 2019-10-05

Samsung Fold engineers: 'Write that down, write that down!'

Sôei - 2020-08-11

its 2020 and samsung created origami phone lol

travel wonders - 2020-08-13

Samsung needs it definitely 👍

Bhavvya Singh Devra - 2020-08-13

Also a Charles the French reference!?

Bhavvya Singh Devra - 2020-08-13

@Asian Support r/wooosh

TheLonePlayer - 2020-08-16

@Asian Support but samsung use sony camera sensor on some of the Samsung galaxy phone and sony in the past use samsung panel for sony bravia tv

MarioXHK and others - 2020-08-10

Me, just beat paper mario TOK 100% now watching this video: mmm, yes, folding.

Drino Zhao - 2021-03-23

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Rey Michael S. Zornosa - 2020-06-29

"9:50"
Nanomachines Son

Robert Frank - 2020-08-04

Bulletproof wall exists
Veritasium: "pew pew"

Jarlemagne - 2019-10-04

"Hmmm" - Veritasium. 2019

Itahang Limbu - 2019-10-05

villager

Shadow God - 2019-10-05

@Yuppy Guppy Lmao, probably because no one takes you science rejecting morons seriously.

Shadow God - 2019-10-05

@Yuppy Guppy I don't really give two shits about these guys or space. I just think your a moron for believing the Earth is flat.

MassDynamic - 2019-10-05

i believe it's more like "huhh" than "hmmm"

• Observer - 2019-10-05

@Yuppy Guppy didn't flat earthers are that people who want to believe in god and hate science because it denies it.....

Juan Hernandez - 2021-03-23

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アカシナフAK47 - 2021-02-08

そういや最近折り紙折ってないなぁ

Vickie Sanders - 2020-11-11

"I made this cactus from one sheet of paper in 7 years."
"Hm."
"This design saved a freight company millions of dollars."
"Hm."
"Look at this violin guy wiggle his arm."
"Fantastic!"

MrLabelChannel - 2020-10-07

6:31 "... Increasing compactness for lunch... "

Gaurav G. - 2019-10-04

Guy: I made an origami human

Veritasium: hmm

Nathan Dehnel - 2019-10-05

Pygmalion

The Marvin - 2019-10-05

Veritasium: Wait is his playing a violin? WHOA!

Ishwor Shrestha - 2019-10-19

Hmm

Mic_Glow - 2021-01-01

10:40 Reminds me of something.... I think it start's with a "V"... Ah, yes, Voyager!

Shaggy Taco Adventures - 2021-03-18

Me: "a boat...... I can make, a boat"

Meme Report - 2020-10-09

“They’re the company with the Da Vinci surgical robot”
Me: remembers Michael reeves video

Master of Gaming - 2020-07-14

And from now on origami will be on tests and renamed “Math” 😅🤣🤔

Asher Pfanku - 2019-12-29

"You can't make a compliant mechanism that rotates 360 degrees"
"Unfortunately, no one told the paper folders that"

Mikyda3 - 2020-10-15

Best comment!

Deborah Ajao - 2020-10-16

fortunately you mean.

Glier Nemeloc - 2020-12-31

@Michael walsh hmmmmmm :/

Glier Nemeloc - 2020-12-31

@josh brock the idea is to use the least amount of pieces while doing the same job, you might want to look at the other video about compliant mechanisms

domitry jobby - 2021-02-23

Fortunately