Stuffed animals that talk back. Chessboards with pieces that move on their own. And a chatty holographic fairy in a crystal ...

The foundation hopes to provide presents to something close to the record 12.9 million children they distributed to in 2024.

The "Transformers" franchise spans across cartoons, comics, video games, and a large portion of Michael Bay's filmography. We ...

Santa Bill, who has been delivering toys to patients at the OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois for 29 years, arrived on a fire truck to give out $75,000 worth of toys to give ...

Mecha anime like Patlabor and Neon Genesis Evangelion stand out by using giant robots as tools for deeper ideas rather than ...

Every week brings new product announcements promising AI-driven companionship for children: Barbies who call you by name, ...

We review Robot Quest Arena, published by Wise Wizard Games. Robot Quest Arena is a deckbuilding arena battle game with ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, Mr. Brooks’s co-founder and C.E.O. at Robust.AI, which is building automated ...

Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer’s creations arrived in the postwar ...

Children are naturally playful, but 'what' and 'how' they play is entirely up to you as a parent or guardian. Not all toys are the same; some make your child smarter and well-behaved, and some are ...

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Looking ahead: Across US cities, robots are being deployed to tackle jobs once reserved for human workers – tasks that are often dirty, dangerous, or monotonous. While the private sector has long used ...