Curio, a Redwood City startup, sells stuffed animals, including a talking rocket plushie called Grok that’s voiced by artist Grimes, who has children with billionaire Elon Musk. Bondu, a San Francisco ...

The Companion Robotic Dog combines cameras, sensors, and on-device AI to move through spaces and respond to voice commands.

The latest Nothing Phone (3) update is by no means a major one, but it packs some welcome improvements. There’s now an option to show the battery percentage icon with a number inside, the “Extra Dark” ...

While not 100% hands-free, it's miles ahead of where robot vacuums were only a few years ago.

Robot vacuums have steadily improved their cleaning performance and object avoidance over the years, but during our testing at CNET Labs, we discovered an odd trade-off.

NBC News reported last week that AI-powered toys gave answers about sex and Chinese Communist Party talking points in tests.

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 ...

What is in the pipeline? Humanoid robots that can obey commands, make decisions, and deftly perform manual tasks have long been a sci-fi fantasy. Now they are becoming reality. Artificial intelligence ...

Robotics companies flexed their latest creations at the International Robot Exhibition 2025 on Wednesday (December 3), which is being held at Tokyo’s iconic Big Sight exhibition hall and runs until ...

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 ...