And the Hello and welcome to the naked scientists with me Ginny Smith and also with

Katani. This week news of the self-assembling origami robots,

bears who might hold the key to curing diabetes,

how hacking is soon going to be part of the school curriculum

and the Comet Chaser that's finally caught up with its quarry after a 10-year journey.

Plus, we have food on the brain as we take a look at the science behind flavor, appetite and eating.

We'll be trying unusual flavor combinations, learning about how

sounds can affect taste and looking at the microbial communities inside you, which

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Oregami was once the traditional art of folding paper into ornate shapes

and it's now inspiration for the next generation of cyborgs.

robotics expert Sam Felton has built a real life transformer that starts life as a

flat piece of plastic then with the application of heat it bends itself into a

shape and can even crawl around.

Greer Jackson investigates.

One of the great things about origami is it is capable of very complex structures.

And theoretically, origami can produce almost anything that you could want to use. So what have you designed and built?

So we've built a self-folding crawling robot that can fold itself

completely autonomously.

It starts off looking like a roughly rectangular flat sheet, almost like the outline of a robot.

And then once it folds itself, it looks more like the origami pattern of a bug or a crab.

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