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.

The plastic dogs of the early 2000s ... I can get behind that ethos a little more than I can behind the scooty robot toy with a screen called Miko. Coming from a Disney-backed company, the ...

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 ...