It's our first year touring Japan's premier toy show, and we'd be happy to do it again. Among traditional wooden blocks, tricycles, action figures and card games (so many card games!) there's a plenty ...

Not only are those robot baby simulators creepy as hell, but they don't even prevent teens from getting pregnant. Published in The Lancet, the first study to explore the effectiveness of robot babies ...

Approximately 70 percent of teens say that anxiety and depression are a major problem among their peers, and those concerns cross gender, racial, and socio-economic lines, according to the Pew ...

In my high school, getting your robot baby from Coach Mac, the health teacher, was something of a rite of passage. Anyone who wanted extra credit could scribble their name on the sign-up sheet she ...

The name of Damien Roy’s social robot is Bob. While the name is simple, the concept is a bit more complicated. Bob is a prototype Ecological Momentary Assessment Robot (EMAR), or a user-friendly robot ...

The word came down way back in September: Andrea Martin del Campo would be getting her baby, in a matter of weeks. It wasn’t a real baby, of course. It was a robot-baby, a mannequin that cries when it ...

Thousands of young adults this summer flocked to the season’s must-see blockbuster movie, “Dawn of The Planet of the Apes.” In reality, though, it’s not rampaging primates that teens need to be ...

After six weeks of construction and wiring, it all came down to three days of intense competition for students in the robotics teams from Crescenta Valley and Clark Magnet high schools. The atmosphere ...

STEM-based schoolwork is a key part of your kid’s curriculum, but encouraging genuine enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering, and math that extends the classroom requires more than a good ...

Two robots battle in a duel during a preliminary competition at Westmoreland County Community College. Robots designed by teams of teens from 53 schools in southwestern Pennsylvania will compete in a ...

Approximately 70 percent of teens say that anxiety and depression are a major problem among their peers, and those concerns cross gender, racial, and socio-economic lines, according to the Pew ...