"This work is a departure from how robots are programmed today. The status quo of programming robots is thousands of hours of tele-operation to teach the robot how to do tasks.

Check out the time-lapse video above showing the process of making a walking paper robot. The final product and demonstration kick in at about 3:16.

This robot paper plane designer (really a robot arm fashioned with silicone grippers) can run through this whole process without human feedback. A video of the robot at work.