Figure is gradually prepping its humanoid robot to competently take on household chores. While the California-based company has ambitions to deploy its robot in industrial settings like factories and ...

Meet Colucat: the offline AI companion with a tactile soul. It evolves through emotional bonding and a unique mystery-box feeding system.New ...

According to Disney Parks, creating the snowman was a far greater challenge than standard bipedal humanoids, which rely on symmetrical weight distribution to stay upright. Olaf is ...

Education Fund has raised concerns about the growing use of artificial intelligence chatbots in children’s toys, warning that some of these systems may not be suitable for young users. According to ...

After booking a toy photoshoot in 2024, a young child model had a joyful surprise more than a year later when he spotted ...

Science technology meets fluffy animals in Pixar’s latest animated comedy adventure “Hoppers.” “Hoppers” are a group of scientists who have discovered a way to mind-hop into robot animal bodies. The ...

Although they're considered classics, now is the perfect time for beloved 2000s cartoons like Teen Titans and Kim Possible to be rebooted in 2026.

Zain bin Awais/Mashable/ Artificial intelligence can make smart homes smarter, help us manage our days, and even help us plan major life changes. This series looks at the new — and sometimes ...

As embodied AI moves from demos to deployment, my personal view is that the future will follow the evolutionary path. It better matches how technologies scale, how businesses work, and how our ...

Robot designers are increasingly making bots cuter so that they are more attractive for humans to interact with.

Whether they’re delivering food or folding your laundry, consumer-facing robots are increasingly being designed to be more palatable to the humans who interact with them.

Toy Fair 2026 was packed with surprises, from tiny arcade cabinets to weirdly smart gadgets. Here are the standouts worth watching this year.