Makeblock’s mBot is an excellent toy for young programmers looking to challenge their knowledge and electronics skill in ...

Since its founding in 2010 by three Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute grads, Anki has been at the forefront of realizing our robot-in-the-home reality—through disarmingly adorable toys. The company’s ...

TODAY’S KIDS will think it weird that robots were ever considered some space-age novelty. Children are already surrounded by voices (see Siri, Alexa) that respond to their every whim, and pet-like ...

TinkerBots is a new building set with easy-to-add robotics that enables boys and girls as young as five--and adults, too--to easily create all kinds of toy robots simply by snapping together ...

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The latest creation from Figure AI, unveiled earlier this week, is a sleek, third-generation humanoid designed to handle everyday tasks, from folding clothes and loading the dishwasher to watering ...

Last fall at a hackathon inside a featureless, low-slung warehouse in north-central Boulder, Colorado, one of the first outside software developers to get his hands on a brand-new robot had an idea: ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. I’m a geek. And as a geek, I love my tech toys. But over time I’ve noticed toys are becoming harder to understand. Some modern toys ...

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