Curio, a Redwood City startup, sells stuffed animals, including a talking rocket plushie called Grok that’s voiced by artist ...

AI-powered toys and stuffed animals could be having wildly inappropriate, if not dangerous, conversations with your children.

Pinterest Predicts — the annual report on the top trends to watch for the upcoming year — is here, and says that in 2026, childhood classics are trending again.

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 ...

A wave of AI-powered children’s toys has hit shelves this holiday season, claiming to rely on sophisticated chatbots to animate interactive robots and stuffed animals that can converse with kids.

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 ...

Robotics companies flexed their latest creations at the International Robot Exhibition 2025 on Wednesday (December 3), which is being held at Tokyo’s iconic Big Sight exhibition hall and runs until ...

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 ...

Lite-Brite toys created by Burt Meyers part of the museum’s collection sitting in an arrangement at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y. The Strong National Museum of Play via AP A ...