AI toys can cajole kids or be made to discuss sex, watchdog groups warn

A company is reportedly withdrawing its AI teddy bear from the market after researchers found it told a tester where to get ...
Gizmodo

The Best Robotic STEM Toys to Fill The Lego Mindstorms Hole in Your Heart

In recent years, Sphero is probably best known for its rolling BB-8 toy based on the chipper droid from the Star Wars sequels, as well as a tiny robotic R2-D2 that’s surprisingly animated and lifelike ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Consumer Reports puts toy robots to the test

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- This holiday season, there's a robot revolution. A host of high tech, interactive robot toys are on the market. Your child might really want one, but which one do you get and do ...

Upcoming Mazinkaiser Figure From Ember Toys Could Be The Best One Yet

The classic super robot Mazinkaiser is getting a new chogokin figure from Ember Toys, and it has all the gimmicks you would ...

Ahead of the holidays, consumer and child advocacy groups warn against AI toys

The child advocacy nonprofit Fairplay issued an advisory on Thursday warning people against buying AI toys this holiday ...
CNET

There Sure Are a Lot of Robots at CES: Here's Why We're Not Picking a Favorite

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...