A MYSTERY toy maker is leaving tiny hand-hewn wooden robots around Portobello, much to the delight of residents. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited ...

HAMLEYS has revealed its top 15 toys for Christmas this year, including the return of some nostalgic classics. With 11 weeks ...

A startup called Primo Toys today began online and retail sales of its latest educational product, the Cubetto, a programmable wooden robot for kids as young as 3. The London startup, which is a ...

Xiaomi is producing a plastic toy robot that you can assemble into different forms, and control with an app. Called the Toy Block, the coding toy appears to rely on Lego-like pieces. The kit will come ...

Like millions of other kids around the world, after seeing the original trilogy, R2-D2 instantly became my favorite Star Wars character. He seemed like the perfect sidekick, but the real Artoo was ...

TOKYO, Sept. 1 (UPI) --Toy fans of all ages and industry professionals braved the searing heat of August's final weekend to attend the 2025 International Tokyo Toy Show and see the latest trends in ...

A rare 1939 Japanese Lilliput robot has fetched £2,280 at a unique auction of robots and sci-fi toys. The tin plate wind-up toy which stands six inches high was part of a collection of almost 1,000 ...

Space travel, rocket ships and robots were among the fantasies of the 20th century. Possibly the earliest pictured robot was a prizewinner in a contest in 1915. It was made from a Meccano toy ...

DFRobot, a company that has been building robots for the education market since 2008, this week introduced its first attempt at making a robot accessible to all children, with the debut of Vortex – an ...

From Furbies to Cabbage Patch Dolls, the most successful toys have employed a variety of tricks to make us love them, and as Chris Baraniuk discovers, now these cues could shape future robots too. At ...

Wooden model Cylon is pictured in the flat of its maker, Ukrainian Dmitry Balandin, in Zaporizhzhya August 6, 2013. It took Balandin, who works as a crane operator, six months to build the model from ...