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 ...

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 ...

From Furbies to Cabbage Patch Dolls, the most successful toys have employed a variety of tricks to make us love them, and as Chris Baraniuk discovers, now these cues could shape future robots too. At ...

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 ...

For some people, the word “robot” may conjure visuals of cute characters like Pixar’s WALL-E and EVE, while others may be reminded of rogue artificial intelligence, such as HAL-9000 in 2001: A Space ...