FOR MILLIONS of mechanically inclined young tinkerers, the Erector set (known in Europe as Meccano) has been the ultimate kit. This collection of perforated metal beams and panels, held together with ...

Some of the toy tech that has shown up at CES this week just makes me wish I was a kid again so that I had an excuse to play with it all day. Leading the pack was definitely the chirruping and highly ...

Meccano is one of those toys with a very strong nostalgia element, involving memories of hours spent bolting together a toy wheelbarrow or a coffee table-size Forth Bridge. But 21st century kids ...

Spin Master on Tuesday launched the Meccanoid G15 KS, a "four-foot tall, programmable, walking, talking robot" for children, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Canadian toy company ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

If you were a child of the ’80s, at some point in your life you saw the movie Short Circuit and realized that a sass-talking robot would be far superior to the friends you had at school. And with its ...

Not, this isn't Johnny 5, but you might as well mistake it for him if not for the lack of tank treads for mobility. But then again you can probably add those to Meccanoid G15 KS later on as well. This ...

The Auckland public has the chance to interact with Meccano’s award-winning personal child-size robot, Meccanoid, at the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) until the end of Queen’s Birthday ...

The winning products had great demonstrations as well. The on-stage winner was Meccanoid (above), a $399 robotics building system from Meccano, the company behind Erector sets. It lets you build a ...

"Why did the chicken cross the road?" The Meccanoid can tell jokes and even wish you a happy birthday For more than a century, children have been building trains, cars and cranes with Meccano. Now the ...