If you've ever sat on your bedroom floor, smashing your Toy Story figures together and feeling frustrated because they simply wouldn't stack properly to form a giant fighting robot, well boy do we ...

Seth Green slumps on a bench seat in a 1970s Winnebago that’s parked inside of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios in Burbank. A nasty case of strep throat has him feeling low. But the fact that “Robot Chicken,” ...

If you hang around TV fans long enough, you’ll eventually hear the snobbier ones disdainfully describe classic shows that were made “just to sell toys.” The implication is clear: if a show was made ...

A lot of crazy things take place in director Steven DeKnight’s Pacific Rim Uprising. That’s what happens when giant human-piloted Jaeger robots battle equally giant Kaiju alien creatures and other ...

Star Wars toys are announced during a special event called Force Friday that takes place a few months before the release of each movie, and robot company Sphero had two big surprises for fans this ...

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 ...

If you grew up watching movies like “Star Wars,” “Short Circuit” or “WALL-E,” you’ve probably daydreamed of what it’d be like to have a robot sidekick, a machine that genuinely reacts to you, ...

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From Furbies to Cabbage Patch Dolls, the most successful toys have employed a variety of tricks to make us love them, and as Chris Baraniuk discovers, now these cues could shape future robots too. At ...