Hasbro has developed a range of toy bugs based on technology used by the US government to create robots. The BIO (Bio-mechanical Integrated Organisms) Bugs are the first toys to use “nervous network” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andy Robertson reports on technology & digital play. Fresh from the latest Battlebots series where Tombstone came second after ...

(CBS) - You know what the world needs? More bugs. It's not enough that they already outnumber us 100 million to one. Toy company Hexbug has decided to make little robot larvae, which could hatch into ...

What do a mighty morphing dinosaur, several children in a trench coat, and a swarm of smiling robots have in common? They know there’s power in numbers — at least when it comes to their constituent ...

Kevin King’s first attempt at naming his family’s robot didn’t go too well. King, 38, along with his two children — Parker, 9, and Hailey, 7 — designed a toy robotic bug that can act in anger, fear, ...

Mattel’s been taking great pains to update its product lines for a plugged-in generation of kids. Last month, the toy maker teamed up with Osmo for an iPad-ready update to its popular Hot Wheels line, ...

3Doodler's safer, cuter 3D-printing pen for kids called Start can already bring their imagination to life. But these new sets can help them get used to drawing objects if they're just starting out and ...

View Slideshow A mechanical bug toy is fighting a robotic dog for more than just space under the Christmas tree this year. The two toys represent rival schools of thought vying for supremacy in the ...

Once upon a time, toys came to life only in stories like The Nutcracker or Toy Story. Now, reality is quickly catching up to fiction. Last year a pack of robotic dogs pounced onto store shelves, along ...

Robosapien took its curmudgeonly place this year in a toy menagerie that also includes cyber-critters ranging from the occasionally annoying talking Furby pet to the gleaming, expensive Sony Aibo ...