Sean Hollister is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years ... it doesn’t just swing a black plastic prop around: three joints ...

The toy robot needs a Wi-Fi connection to access its ... Google recently filed a patent on a teddy bear that trains its plastic eyes and furry ears on its owner. And IBM’s Watson supercomputer ...

Moxie robots, cute interactive desktop devices with ... The news is a tough reminder of how challenging the digital toy market is and how hard it is to ship a successful hardware-based product ...

In repose (or powered down), one might describe WowWee's new Mintid Dog-E robot toy dog as lacking curb appeal. Its nearly all-white plastic body resembles a tiny dog covered in opaque white paint.

Parents of children who were attached to their robot now have to explain that it's going away. Moxie, an AI-powered toy robot aimed at preschoolers and other children, is shutting down — leaving ...

The toys are all for a spoiled ... The determined robot proceeds to screw the cap in, which fills the room with the sound of grating plastic. After a few seconds, it admits defeat.

When old food packaging, discarded children’s toys and other mismanaged plastic waste ... In a study in ACS Nano, researchers describe swarms of microscale robots (microrobots) that captured bits of ...