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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I agree, but none of the toy companies answered my emails—save for Hasbro, which said it could not discuss robot dogs. Instead, I wrote to the Strong National Museum of Play, located in my ...

The robot is a Japanese rarity and worth up to £10,000 (Picture: PA) A toy robot which was about to be donated to a charity shop could be sold for £10,000 at auction after it was discovered to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.