When the Armatron first came out, in 1981, robotics engineers started contacting Watanabe. “I wasn’t so much hearing from ...

Moxie the robot wasn’t only for autistic kids, but it was marketed as a great companion and tool for them. The company, Embodied, promised that for about $800, the new toy would use AI and its ...

In late 2023, the singer Grimes partnered with toy makers to sell a line ... (I immediately bought one — although my kids pretty quickly lost interest.) Another AI robot, Moxie, which was ...