The following is an excerpt from The New Breed: What Our History With Animals Reveals About Our Future With Robots by Kate Darling. The Huggable is a soft, fully animated blue teddy bear with a green ...

Toy robots are nothing new. In the 1980s, the R2D2-like Tomy Verbot or the clunky Milton Bradley Big Trak let kids program their movements or actions using voice commands or a keypad. The marketing ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) -(Sponsored by EdVenture Children’s Museum) February is a busy month at EdVenture Children’s Museum. The museum is gearing up to celebrate Engineering Week February 19th-23rd, ...

TCL showed off the Tbot desktop robot at MWC 2026. It pairs with kids smartwatches to handle routines, learning, and bedtime when the watch is charging. But it is still a concept with no price or ...

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 ...

TODAY lifestyle contributor Jill Martin continues a week of Steals & Deals with big bargains on gifts for the little ones on your list, including building block sets from Picasso Tiles; remote control ...

Researchers from AMOLF's Soft Robotic Matter group have shown that a group of small autonomous, self-learning robots can adapt easily to changing circumstances. They connected these simple robots in a ...

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.