They are called karakuri puppets and they have been used in Japan as early as the 17th Century. The technique is called Kirigami which differs to origami as the paper is cut rather than just folded.

Paper is a modest material with rich affordances for craft and design. In this work, we explore shaping carbon-coated paper with manual and digital fabrication processes to create functional and ...

The researchers assembled two kirigami antenna arrays for testing. They also created a prototype of a co-planar resonator—a ...

The use of soft lithography methods that shape ... could be picked to adapt to a different temperature range. Example of kirigami: St. Paul’s Cathedral by Bharath Kishore. The aforementioned ...

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a kirigami-inspired mechanical computer that uses a complex structure of rigid, interconnected polymer cubes to store, retrieve and erase ...