The maker of Moxie, an AI-powered robot for kids, is shutting down. Why it matters: The parents who bought the device are not ...

Its big selling point was helping ... been worried about their neurotypical kids falling behind in social skills during the pandemic, the idea of a robot playmate didn't seem so outrageous.

The AI robot companion called Moxie, which was designed to help teach social skills, is being discontinued after the company lost funding.

We love cheap stuff here. Who doesn’t? [Oscar Rodriguez Parra] does too, and wrote in to show us his super cheapey robot L.I.O.S. The build was for the AFRON design challenge, which involves ...

Robots have been a big part of kids’ movies for years, especially before the millennium, with films like Bicentennial Man and ...

Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked. Embodied blamed its closure on a failed “critical funding round." On its website ...

Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked. Embodied blamed its closure on a failed “critical funding round." On its website ...