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As I rounded corner after corner at the NY Toy Fair this week, there they were: robots, and lots of them. Some were fuzzy and wanted to be my friend. Some had a menacing mechanical appeal. Others ...

If your children are begging you ... and begging you some more ... to buy them the new "Skylanders Giants" video game and, more importantly, the many toys that go with it, then you have one man to ...

How do you make something mechanical feel alive? That's the challenge facing any movie with computer-generated imagery. And it's a more specific issue for Robots, 20th Century Fox's latest 3-D ...

A mechanical arm that can grab 120 items a minute from a conveyor belt won Japan's Robot of the Year award Thursday, defeating a dozen flashier finalists, including a walking humanoid and a ...

Even R2D2 might have felt a twinge of envy. Dozens of robots were on hand Sunday for the first International Robot Contest, battling computer chip to computer chip to see who had the most byte. The ...