Meccano is one of those toys with a very strong nostalgia element, involving memories of hours spent bolting together a toy wheelbarrow or a coffee table-size Forth Bridge. But 21st century kids ...

Spin Master on Tuesday launched the Meccanoid G15 KS, a "four-foot tall, programmable, walking, talking robot" for children, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Canadian toy company ...

A Guinness World Records judge found herself getting into a tangle with a robot in Belfast, where students have built the world's largest Meccano construction. A total of 11,000 pieces of lightweight ...

Meccano is set to launch a build your own robot later this year which is likely to become one of the must have gadgets for Christmas 2015. Called Meccanoid G15 KS, it is made with Meccano parts, ...

Meccano is all set to unveil a WiFi-controlled, Erector-branded robot kit at CES. The Spyke certainly improves on Meccano's earlier metallic attempts at robot sets: this little fella is capable of ...

Some of the toy tech that has shown up at CES this week just makes me wish I was a kid again so that I had an excuse to play with it all day. Leading the pack was definitely the chirruping and highly ...

"Why did the chicken cross the road?" The Meccanoid can tell jokes and even wish you a happy birthday For more than a century, children have been building trains, cars and cranes with Meccano. Now the ...

We first reported on Spyke in January when he was unveiled at CES. He’s a pint-sized robot with built-in Wi-Fi, a microphone and a video camera. The idea: he trundles around your home keeping an eye ...

While we patiently wait for the original Spyke (pictured) to roll his Johnny Five-like caterpillar tracks into PC World and take out a few cut-price laptops, creator Meccano is readying a trio of ...

Engineering students from Queen's University Belfast celebrate their new world record Credit: Photo: ustin Kernoghan/Photopress Belfast Engineering students have set a new world record with a 100ft ...