As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to ...

IN 2026, The Wuffy Robot Puppy has gained massive attention online through eye-catching ads and promotional videos claiming it is a lifelike, AI-powered robotic dog for children. According to ...

The year is nearly over, and our wallets have spent much of it being drained by all the cool new toys we added to our collection in 2025. How cool? Well, io9’s resident toy collectors banded together ...

In the future, a caregiving machine might gently lift an elderly person out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child’s room, picking up scattered ...

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by The Strong National Museum of Play shows Lite-Brite toys created by Burt Meyers part of the museum's ...