In what may be the birth of cheap, easy-to-make robots, researchers have created complex machines that transform themselves from little more than a sheet of paper and plastic into walking automatons.

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On paper, "Transformers" should have made an incredible video game. Towering robots that transform into vehicles like fighter jets and eighteen-wheelers? What’s not to love about this concept? The ...