Mattel has announced that the fourth wave of the Masters of the Universe Origins Cartoon Collection 200x action figures are ...

I think the answer is that Olaf — coming to Disneyland Paris on March 26th and Hong Kong Disneyland this summer — is the rare robot that crosses the uncanny valley as long as ...

The industry’s call to action should be to prove that we are the best in the world at AI filmmaking. By only focusing on regulating generative AI, studios, writers and directors are losing vital time ...

Can children tell the difference between a cuddly, purring AI toy and a real animal? While research is still in early stages, the global market for emotionally responsive AI toys is booming — despite ...

The voice-controlled, transforming robot is an objectively cool toy, but a little less than meets the eye in the sound department. Reading time 8 minutes Whenever I see a toy robot, I feel like a kid ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Decades ago, the common hope was that, by the year 2000, we would be living in a full-on science-fiction utopia, with intelligent robots ...

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 ...

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 ...

What does it take to keep kids amused? Before the invention of electronic games and smartphones, that was a more complicated question for parents. Burt Meyer provided many of the answers. Meyer, who ...