When the Armatron first came out, in 1981, robotics engineers started contacting Watanabe. “I wasn’t so much hearing from ...

When I was a kid, I had a little robot toy called the 2-XL. The ‘90s one that actually looks like a robot, not the ‘80s one that looks like a nightmare. Anyway, this robot could play regular ...

The Hexbug Spider is a neat little robot toy available at just about any Target or Walmart for about $20. With a few extra parts, though, it can become a vastly more powerful robotics platform ...

He had a big collection of all kinds of robot toys, but his favourite was a little blue robot named Zippy. Zippy could dance, ...