We put several robot vacuums from Roborock, Eufy, Dreame, and more through a series of mess tests to see which stood out.

Sliwinski says Lego wanted to move past the two dominant narratives around AI and children. One frames AI as an unstoppable force that will render kids obsolete before adulthood. The other calls for ...

Toy makers at the Consumer Electronics Show were adamant about being careful to ensure that their fun creations infused with ...

AI toys, companions, and robots have been everywhere at CES this year, but among the horde of waddling plushies and light-up ...

The year is nearly over, and our wallets have spent much of it being drained by all the cool new toys we added to our collection in 2025. How cool? Well, io9’s resident toy collectors banded together ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Robots made by Chinese ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is seemingly everywhere these days, including children’s toys. Earlier this year, for example, toymaker Mattel announced a partnership with OpenAI, the company behind ...

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 with a robot driver and a robot passenger seems to have been ...

A wave of AI-powered children’s toys has hit shelves this holiday season, claiming to rely on sophisticated chatbots to animate interactive robots and stuffed animals that can converse with kids.

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 ...