Sphero has announced its latest connected toy, but this one isn’t a rolling robot ball or tube, it’s an interactive Spider-Man figure which responds to speech. The silicone toy features voice ...

And it's another toy built in partnership with Disney. Meet Sphero's Spider-Man, a replica of the beloved Marvel superhero than listens and responds to your voice commands.

Marvel Spider-Man Toys. Daily Newsletter. Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily. ... Peter Parker and His Spectacular Spider-Robot Make For an Awesome Figure Set ...

Weller says he created the spider's legs from 3/8-inch plastic sheet stock on a 3-axis CNC mill. But it can also be made by a 3-D printer such as Makerbot and RepRap.

Spider-Man is sitting on the table. He's telling me a long story. I'm listening, and sometimes we talk. It's a nice time we're having. Sphero is a company that makes robots, and remote-control toys.

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of the latest in all things cool, shiny, and plastic. This week: Lego gets its head in the Star Wars games with some cool new collectibles.

You may be familiar with the Hexbug Spider, a small electronic robot toy sold at Target and Walmart for $20. While they’re able to be commanded to move forward, backward, ...

Steampunk Robots: Beautiful Toy Nightmares Belgian sculptor and animator Stephane Halleux builds amazing steampunk models and robots, from this menacing spider to the yard-high robot horse and rider.

The four legged robots scuttle quite rapidly, and the advertised hour of battery life is impressive for a “toy,” although the $329 price tag pushes this past the typical toy range.

There will be no shortage at Toy Fair next month of robots and gadgets promising artificial intelligence — and generally falling short. But a more modest approach from an actual AI researcher ...

Bots_alive uses your smartphone to drive artificially intelligent spider robots ... And it’s the conceit of the Professor Einstein, the intelligent toy from Hanson Robotics.