From Furbies to Cabbage Patch Dolls, the best toys use a variety of tricks to make us love them. Now these cues could shape future robots too.

MOSS is a modular building toy that allows anyone to easily build semi-intelligent robotic creations without the need for a computer, programming know-how, or any prior experience with building bots.

Spun off from toy-droid kingpin Sphero, this startup wants to sell bots that only get more capable as their owners figure out all the things they can do.

Making the robots spherical makes them compact and resistant to strong impacts. Small and light are desirable characteristics in an exploration robot, but the moon's surface is covered in fine ...

This educational shortcoming is something that is ingeniously addressed by Photon, a toy robot made in Poland. Meant for kids aged 6 to 12, it has them learning the basics of coding without any sense ...

This toy robot for kids is made of excellent non-harmful and without burr plastic. The robot's body bend is smooth and round likewise there are no sharp parts to try not to hurt the child.

RHex, however, wasn’t a toy. It was a $20,000 robot funded by the DARPA, the Defense Department’s mad-science program. Retrofitting the tech and making it cheaper took four years.

As robot toys like Lego Mindstorm and nano drones capture kids' imaginations, Ready is building a cloud-based OS to make them play together.

A new toy called Mangobot has launched that aims to help children develop coding and problem-solving skills. Mangobot has been developed by start-up Little Tinkerer, which designs technology-based ...