Collectors experience a noticeable shift in 2026. Labubu dominated 2025 with its static monster designs from Pop Mart, ...

Toys powered by AI show a worrying lack of emotional understanding. But we need to understand the risks and benefits of the technology so the industry can be regulated, not outright banned ...

Can children tell the difference between a cuddly, purring AI toy and a real animal? While research is still in early stages, the global market for emotionally responsive AI toys is booming — despite ...

If you are an Austin hobby modeler, then you have probably been to King’s Hobby. One of Austin’s oldest hobby shops, King’s specializes in the art of models. Founded by Bob King and his wife Alice in ...

The voice-controlled, transforming robot is an objectively cool toy, but a little less than meets the eye in the sound department. Reading time 8 minutes Whenever I see a toy robot, I feel like a kid ...

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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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is seemingly everywhere these days, including children’s toys. Earlier this year, for example, toymaker Mattel announced a partnership with OpenAI, the company behind ...

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 ...

What does it take to keep kids amused? Before the invention of electronic games and smartphones, that was a more complicated question for parents. Burt Meyer provided many of the answers. Meyer, who ...