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

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

NASA’s next space robot doesn't look much like the wheeled or four-legged or humanoid robots that generations of science fiction have dreamed up. More than anything else, it looks like an abstract, ...

Curio's voice-activated plushies (one of which, Grok, is voiced by the singer Grimes, former partner of Elon Musk) that can carry on a conversation midcuddle. You need only stroll through the aisles ...

San Francisco A.I. startup Anki has a great reputation for making robot cars you can race with your phone. And considering all three founders got their start at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotic Institute, ...

In my high school, getting your robot baby from Coach Mac, the health teacher, was something of a rite of passage. Anyone who wanted extra credit could scribble their name on the sign-up sheet she ...

Scientists are trying a new tactic to train robots: babying them. A team based at the University of Washington is coding robot behavior to look a lot like kids playing, reports Kit Eaton for Quartz.