If there’s one type of toy that has remained popular for many years, it’s dinosaur toys. These creatures offer a largely unrivaled appeal to children that has endured while trends come and go. From ...

Earlier this year, inventor Jamie Mantzel unveiled a prototype of a remote-controlled robot he had nicknamed "the greatest toy in the universe" in a YouTube video that garnered over 2 million hits in ...

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Xiaomi is producing a plastic toy robot that you can assemble into different forms, and control with an app. Called the Toy Block, the coding toy appears to rely on Lego-like pieces. The kit will come ...

Walter Mueller knows his Transformers. The 32-year-old has been collecting the robot toys for more than 20 years. He even has one of the brand's main characters, Optimus Prime, tattooed in full color ...

If you've ever sat on your bedroom floor, smashing your Toy Story figures together and feeling frustrated because they simply wouldn't stack properly to form a giant fighting robot, well boy do we ...

There's no shortage of robot-based toys out there which are claimed to be both fun, and teach your budding young roboticist the basics of programming. Following in the digital footsteps of Play-i, ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Taylor Soper on Dec 31, ...

DFRobot, a company that has been building robots for the education market since 2008, this week introduced its first attempt at making a robot accessible to all children, with the debut of Vortex – an ...

It's our first year touring Japan's premier toy show, and we'd be happy to do it again. Among traditional wooden blocks, tricycles, action figures and card games (so many card games!) there's a plenty ...

The Steampunk robot toys seem to come out of nowhere, attacking the dogs from all angles. These robots prank each beagle dog with their own funny noises, giving the cute dogs the robot fight of their ...

There was a time when the little robot dog was among the most coveted items in the world. Then came the iDog, which was a robot dog that would emote in response to whatever music you played on your ...