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

Hailing from somewhere between Silicon Valley and the Uncanny Valley, Hanson Robotics' Sophia is the unofficial face of robots right now. But while she's busy on UN business or hanging with Jimmy ...

Their creation, RoboBuddies, will represent Singapore at this year’s World Robot Olympiad finals, taking place here from Nov ...

Your kids are already masters of the digital world; now they can put those skills to use in the real world. In this week’s ...

Toy robots are nothing new. In the 1980s, the R2D2-like Tomy Verbot or the clunky Milton Bradley Big Trak let kids program their movements or actions using voice commands or a keypad. The marketing ...

The following is an excerpt from The New Breed: What Our History With Animals Reveals About Our Future With Robots by Kate Darling. The Huggable is a soft, fully animated blue teddy bear with a green ...

Learning to read is difficult, and reading aloud is anxiety inducing for plenty of kids. From not being able to pronounce a word, to being mocked by their peers for stumbling while speaking, reading ...

Researchers have built a robot, named Minnie, to serve as a reading buddy to middle school kids, and Minnie's new friends grew more excited about books and more attached to the robot over two weeks of ...