Held last month at New York City’s Jacob Javits Center, the 115th International Toy Fair took another step toward ramping up the scope of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematic (STEM) ...

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Robots don’t grow on trees, but as one Japanese designer has proven, they can be made from trees. The artist known as Kikousya has designed and built the Mechanical Paper Robot from wood pulp, a ...

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A startup wants to put BB-8 under the influence of a new kind of force. Charley Gallay/Getty Images Here’s a Silicon Valley truism: hardware is hard. So just like gamers control massive mechanical ...

Left alone, the toy robots will skitter mindlessly across a tabletop and amuse small children and cats. But when engineers at Princeton paired the small toys with a flexible tether, the bots developed ...

Many exhibitors at the 2016 toy fair mentioned how their products were tactile, mechanical, good for kids on a developmental spectrum. Sydney Wiseman of WowWee USA, holds CHiP’s robotic dog. “If you ...