Can children tell the difference between a cuddly, purring AI toy and a real animal? While research is still in early stages, the global market for emotionally responsive AI toys is booming — despite ...

Apptronik Inc., the maker of artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, today announced it has raised $520 million more in early-stage funding, bringing the total capital raised by the company ...

File this under something I didn’t think I would be writing today, but Woody from “Toy Story” was featured in a Levi’s commercial. You are probably asking, “Why is that a problem?” The entire ...

Abstract: With the increasing adoption of embodied service robots in commercial service settings, there is a critical need to understand the intricate interaction behavior process between humans ...

Industry supply chain sources say 2026 is increasingly being viewed as a potential inflection point for the commercialization of humanoid robots, as more developers complete product development and ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boston Dynamics introduced the production version of its Atlas humanoid robot at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. Initial deployments ...

Boston Dynamics has been on the cutting edge of robotics since 1992, and it has unveiled its most ambitious plan yet to monetize those decades of research.

Segway is taking its robot lawn mowers to a space they’ve never been before—the commercial market—as it tees up its updated Navimow-brand models at CES in Las Vegas this week. Segway’s new Terranox ...

A postwar robot toy car known as the "Honeymoon Car" has sold for $233.7k - more than the price of a Tesla. The rare Japanese toy, featuring a robot driver and a robot passenger, appears to have been ...

Robosen and Hasbro roll out by introducing the first auto-converting Soundwave robot. This robotics collectible captures the likeness of the Transformers character, merging cutting-edge technology and ...

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often show impairments in Theory of Mind (ToM). This pilot study examined whether a commercially available toy robot (Cozmo) could support false-belief ...

Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer’s creations arrived in the postwar ...