The 2025 China Toy Expo opened in Shanghai on Oct. 15, bringing together domestic and international toy makers and IP licensors, including Disney, with robot toys stealing the spotlight. Alex Lin, ...

Inspired by the effortless way humans handle objects without seeing them, engineers have developed a new approach that enables a robotic hand to rotate objects solely through touch, without relying on ...

image: Inspired by the effortless way humans handle objects without seeing them, a team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a new approach that enables a robotic ...

Daniel Pendergast, a graduate student in CU Boulder’s ATLAS Institute, issues the command, and a few feet away a four-foot-tall robot obeys. The machine whirs to life, bending and twisting its one arm ...

Father-son team develop array of impressive mechanised figures from cheap, second-hand materials, attract widespread interest ...

Hanson Robotics is making its first foray into the consumer electronics market with an educational toy called Professor Einstein. The device is a pint-sized, shuffling Albert Einstein that uses ...