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The hottest toy this holiday season may be a robot dog that whimpers, blinks its eyes, wags its tail and responds to a rub on the head. The only thing Dog-E won’t do is soil that expensive rug ...
Not really. Turns out in around 1960, Ideal sold Robot Commando, a kid’s toy robot that featured voice control. Well, sort of. If you look at the ad in the video below, you’ll see that a kid ...
It occurred to me that the robot has a pressure sensor in the mouth, but I couldn’t quite tell if it’s in the back or along the roof or bottom of the mouth. Placing my finger back in the toy ...
It was there, in 1984, that I discovered the best toy of my childhood: the Armatron robotic arm. A drawing from the patent application for the Armatron robotic arm. Described as a “robot-like ...
Playing with Hasbro’s ultimate toy, the $750 self-transforming Optimus Prime The $750 self-transforming Optimus Prime just got a $750 transforming trailer too This $400 Bumblebee robot can dance ...
Let’s say you love the world of Pixar’s Toy Story but also are cool with letting asentient robot live in your home that seems like it could, hypothetically, one day decide to kill you.
NEW YORK (TND) — Ask Joe Knedlhans about any toy robot in his 3,000-plus-piece collection, and the retired New York City police officer will welcome the chance to chat. Robert the Robot is a ...