W hen my 4-year-old unwrapped Curio’s Grok, an AI-powered plush designed to chat and play, his eyes went wide. “Does it ...

Casio has a relatively clear privacy policy. On its website, it takes great care in pointing out that the Moflin only locally ...

At CEATEC 2025, Sharp drew considerable attention with Poketomo, a palm-sized AI companion that blurs the line between toy, robot, and ...

AI robots are being trained on data from real humans who record themselves doing chores for a living. But they’re not doing ...

You must have been very surprised. Are you okay now?” When a child spoke in a depressed voice, saying, “A friend pushed me at ...

AI researchers at Andon Labs embedded various LLMs in a vacuum robot to test how ready they were to be embodied. And hilarity ensued.

It’s never easy to say goodbye to a friend. But what if that friend was an AI robot toy? That’s a question one little girl’s father is grappling with, after she damaged her AI learning companion. The ...

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to ...

In September 2025, a story about an artificial-intelligence robot that apparently was the first of its kind to experience post-traumatic stress disorder spread across social media. According to the ...