Kuttsukugami

In recent years, origami design has been used by the engineering community to solve many problems and has inspired much fundamental study of its mechanisms, limits, and geometry. While not often discussed, origami design suffers from several limitations. For example, origami systems are not easily reconfigurable (as creases or hinges require memory in the sheet) and cannot easily create curved or closed structures. In this work, we show how sticky sheets (kuttsukugami) can not only create identical structures as in traditional fold-based origami but can also be used to resolve many of the limitations. We show how sticky sheets can easily create stable, curved structures, how they constitute a truly reusable and reconfigurable system, how they allow the use of materials that cannot be used in traditional origami and how their principles can be used to create measurement, encapsulation schemes and soft robotic elements.