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 ...

But Ben Varadi, vice president of Meccano owner Spin Master, said ‘anybody who is into exploration, creativity, building and love of engineering’ will enjoy the robot The robot is four-foot high, has ...

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Meccano is all set to unveil a WiFi-controlled, Erector-branded robot kit at CES. The Spyke certainly improves on Meccano's earlier metallic attempts at robot sets: this little fella is capable of ...

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 ...

A Guinness World Records judge found herself getting into a tangle with a robot in Belfast, where students have built the world's largest Meccano construction. A total of 11,000 pieces of lightweight ...

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 ...

A pair of new products from children's model company Meccano are set to further blur the line between toys and technology. MeccaSpider and M.A.X. were both on display at London's Toy Fair trade show ...

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 ...