Robot Make Launch Paper Airplanes
This innovative robot won’t be able to set a Guinness World Record for paper airplanes, but it can make and launch them autonomously. It was developed by EPFL engineers from Switzerland’s CREATE Lab (Computational Robot Design & Fabrication Lab) and required programming a software application that could generate plans for making paper airplanes.



After the design was finalized, the application sends it to the robot arm, which would then cut out the design using a single sheet of paper. Once it was cut out, the robot arm then folds the paper into an airplane shape before place it on a launcher. The launcher then sends it across the test pad before accelerating off. Over 500 paper airplanes were made consisting of 50 different designs and the results were split into three categories: glide, recovery glide and nose dive.

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Robot Make Launch Paper Airplanes
Robot Make Launch Paper Airplanes
Robot Make Launch Paper Airplanes

Gaussian mixture models to extract the clusters of the design space that map to these different behaviors. This allows us to solve both the forward and reverse design problem for paper airplanes, and also to perform efficient optimization of the geometry for a given target flight distance,” said the researchers.

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