Humanoid home robots are being marketed as the missing link between smart speakers and science fiction, promising to load ...

A year ago, the Saros Z70's arm grabbed everyone's attention — and then lost it. Dreame thinks it can do a better job.

A new Gundam action figure from Metal Robot Spirits recreates the aesthetic and arsenal of an overlooked mech from the Gundam ...

The year is nearly over, and our wallets have spent much of it being drained by all the cool new toys we added to our collection in 2025. How cool? Well, io9’s resident toy collectors banded together ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is seemingly everywhere these days, including children’s toys. Earlier this year, for example, toymaker Mattel announced a partnership with OpenAI, the company behind ...

A postwar robot toy car known as the “Honeymoon Car” has sold for $233.7k – more than the price of a Tesla. The rare Japanese toy with a robot driver and a robot passenger seems to have been ...

From demonstrating its rescue capabilities during disasters to busting a move and serving up drinks, the latest advances in humanoid robot technology are on full display at this year’s International ...

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 ...

Toy Inventor Burt Meyer, Who Dreamed up Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Dies Age 99 Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that ...