Whether you’re a fan of folding paper or life-saving medical procedures, you’re going to love the work that Brigham Young University is doing with small-scale surgical devices. BYU mechanical engineering professors Larry Howell and Spencer Magleby have pioneered a new generation of tools that will make surgery less invasive and they’ve relied on 3D printing and origami to do it.
Tools like the da Vinci robot from Intuitive Surgical are designed to reduce the size of an incision necessary to perform a medical procedure. …
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