New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have ...

The presence of robots in schools is no longer surprising. How do elementary school children treat humanoid robots? Are they polite to them, and willing to attribute human-like qualities to them?

Last year, researchers found that when kids met a robot in the mall, they would often try to beat it up. Last week, at a shopping center in the Bay Area, the opposite happened: a security robot took ...

A chess robot playing three games at once broke a 7-year-old boy’s finger in a tournament that ended Thursday. According to Baza, the robot “squeezed” the kid’s finger, but it’s possible that’s a ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The parents of a young boy who got knocked down and run over by a security robot at Stanford Shopping Center want to get the word out to prevent others from getting hurt. They ...

A damaged ego is usually the worst injury a chess player can come out of a match with. But in Russia, a seven-year-old child playing with a robot was forced to interrupt the game when the machine ...

Robots are here — and they’re ready to teach your children and grandchildren. Miko is an artificial intelligence-powered robot that was designed specifically to take kids' learning to a new level. The ...

The Moxie AI robot cost $800 and was marketed to parents to help teach children social skills. The company sent customers an email in late November announcing it would be shutting down. Parents of ...

A child has had his finger broken by a robot during a chess tournament, and the moment was captured on video. The 7-year-old boy that has yet to be named, was participating in a chess tournament in ...

Less “checkmate,” more “check your finger to see if it’s still intact, buddy.” A robot chess player went outside the usual rules of the game recently when it made a move that shocked onlookers and ...

There are things that are exclusively something that you'd say "only in Japan" which is reflected in my headline, where today I saw Reuters sharing a video of "Pedia_Roid": a lifelike child-looking ...

A chess robot broke a 7-year-old boy's finger during a match at the Moscow Chess Open last week. Footage of the incident shows the robot, with its large mechanical arm, playing three simultaneous ...