About 160,000 toys are on the market at any given time, said toy consultant Chris Byrne (thetoyguy.com) “We’re the only ...

Black Friday sales have started at top retailers and we have a list of the best buys! The first Black Friday event starts Nov. 14 at Walmart (Nov. 13 at 7 pm for Walmart+ members) & many stores are ...

It’s officially award season, and the festivities are underway with the unveiling of the finalists for the 2026 Toy of the ...

"Beautified" slime, a dinosaur that hatches itself out of an egg, and wiggly fidget collectibles are among the 113 innovative ...

AgiBot announced a key milestone this week with the successful deployment of its Real-World Reinforcement Learning system in a manufacturing pilot with Longcheer Technology. The pilot project marks ...

NVIDIA introduces advancements in open-source physics engines and development frameworks, leveraging OpenUSD to enhance robot learning and simulation capabilities. NVIDIA has unveiled groundbreaking ...

Kids cope by copying, so Mattel is launching a new series of Fisher-Price playsets to help little ones learn by mimicking grown-up routines. With the Mini Me Moments collection, babies can parrot ...

CarbonSix Inc., a developer of physical AI for manufacturing, yesterday launched a toolkit based on robot imitation learning. It said Sigmakit can be deployed directly onto the factory floor, allowing ...

Credit: Lin and Yu, 2025. Humanoid robots may soon be able to handle rugged trails as well as people do, thanks to new research from the University of Michigan. A team there has developed an ...

Training humanoid robots to hike could accelerate development of embodied AI for tasks like autonomous search and rescue, ecological monitoring in unexplored places and more, say University of ...