The tasks taken on by the Armatron aren’t so different from the ones AI is tackling today. As a child of an electronic engineer, I spent a lot of time in our local Radio Shack as a kid. While my dad ...

Cooper the STEM Robot was a favorite among our toy experts because it has a lot of functions built in: It can follow a black line, detect light and dark, sense and avoid objects, and communicate with ...

Toys under the tree on Christmas morning weren't always made at the North Pole. For a half-century, until 1980, many were made in Erie and Girard by Marx Toys. The company founded by "Toy King" Louis ...

We do a lot of toy testing at the Good Housekeeping Institute, tech toys included. Let me tell you, not all of them are up to snuff. But when a tech toy doesn't live up to its own hype, it can be ...