We are two full months past Christmas now, but it’s about to be the year of Baby Yoda toys. We have seen a whole collection of them debut over the last two months, the delay because Jon Favreau wanted ...

In examining the history of famous robots, you’d be forgiven for overlooking a 1950s children’s toy named Robert. Robert the Robot, who was a product of the once-mighty Ideal Toy Company, didn’t do ...

As tech advances, so do toys. Now, Legos and other low-tech toys have combined with high-tech robots that help turn learning about engineering, coding, and math into fun. In addition to STEM literacy, ...

Welcome to the Internet of toys — an age that promises a cute animatronic to take on even the most tedious of parental tasks. The Snoo, a ‘smart’ rocker crib sold by Happiest Baby toy company for ...

As I rounded corner after corner at the NY Toy Fair this week, there they were: robots, and lots of them. Some were fuzzy and wanted to be my friend. Some had a menacing mechanical appeal. Others ...

An exhibition in Osaka, central Japan, has assembled a hall of fame for Japanese tech products, with hits including Sony’s Walkman and Aibo, an original Tranformer toy, and Paro the baby seal robot on ...