A couple months ago, we were excited about robotic chickens; now, Sega Toys announced that they’re coming out with three new robotic animal types for their highly popular Dream Pet series: a ...

Ever since robots were first introduced in Karel Čapek's 1920 play "Rossum's Universal Robots," we've imagined them as being nearly indistinguishable from biological life. Fiction is filled with all ...

Age of the Primes toys are releasing in 2026, with these capped off by a mammoth action figure from a Beast Wars anime.

Cats are not known to be nature’s most loving animals, but Hasbro has created an animatronic cat so lifelike, you might think it actually cares about you. The Companion Pets, part of the Joy For All ...

The AI industry hopes robots will unseat the dog someday as man’s best friend, but Fido is safe — for now. Though robot dogs and cats have been around for years, recent advances have made them a ...

DUBLIN — To help ward off some of the isolation and loneliness elderly dementia patients in hospice care have been experiencing during the pandemic, workers at one organization have come up with a ...

Real guppies respond to Robofish—a 3D-printed plastic model with a vaguely realistic paint job—as if it were a real schoolmate. Researchers used different-sized Robofish to show that guppy schools ...

What if you could turn a stuffed animal into a robot? It's not an idle question. Researchers at Yale University have developed "robotic skins" that can be wrapped around everyday objects to turn them ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. When designing tools for use in space, versatility is important. Each pound of material you ...

DUBLIN — To help ward off some of the isolation and loneliness elderly dementia patients in hospice care have been experiencing during the pandemic, workers at one organization have come up with a ...