New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have ...

This is an intergalactic emergency: A real-life Buzz Lightyear Robot has been released, and you don’t even need to be named Andy to get it. Disney and Pixar have joined forces with Robosen Robotics to ...

The Moxie AI robot cost $800 and was marketed to parents to help teach children social skills. The company sent customers an email in late November announcing it would be shutting down. Parents of ...

Will stuffed animals and mini robots with built-in AI chatbots help or hinder children's language development?

If there’s one type of toy that has remained popular for many years, it’s dinosaur toys. These creatures offer a largely unrivaled appeal to children that has endured while trends come and go. From ...

Poe is an animated talking teddy bear toy that uses ChatGPT to generate children's stories. I took it for an early test run and bedtime got strange. Bridget Carey is an award-winning reporter who ...

Teddy bears and stuffed plushies have long been a mainstay in toy collections. But today they don’t talk back in a child’s imagination — they talk through built-in AI chatbots.

Tesla put on a big show at its Robotaxi event on Thursday night. But nothing was more eyebrow-raising than its Optimus robots: the slim, sleek, AI-powered humanoids that are supposedly capable of ...