Philip Lee is an ad man, a great admirer of vintage Macs and a lifelong collector of toy robots. From those three pieces of Lee’s life comes Classicbot, a line of designer toys that turns historic ...

Which Optimus Prime toy is best? Optimus Prime is one of the main characters from “Transformers”. As a member of the Autobots, these self-aware robots can configure themselves into various mechanical ...

Born in 1926 as Burton Carpenter Meyer, he enlisted in the Navy and served for two years as an aircraft mechanic. After ...

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 ...

Perhaps robots can be family, too.

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Red Rocker and Blue Bomber will soon be coming to life on the big screen, thanks to none other than Vin Diesel.

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Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer’s creations arrived in the postwar ...