When the Armatron first came out, in 1981, robotics engineers started contacting Watanabe. “I wasn’t so much hearing from ...

There's no such thing as a real Transformer, or is there? A new generation of robotic toys harks back to the past, provided ...

One of the more obscure toys of the ‘80s was a line of digital watches from Japan’s Takara called the Kronoform that could ...

We were doing our daily harvest of YouTube for fresh hacks when we stumbled on a video that eventually led us to this conversion of a 1980s Armatron robot to steam power. The video in question was ...

[DJ Sures] just can’t help himself from tinkering with robot toys built in the 80s. This time, he got his hands on an Omnibot-2000 (not to be confused with his other Omnibot hack), and updated ...

Voltron ROBO-DOU Retro Toy Edition stands at 10.6", echoing the 1980s Voltron toy's nostalgic appeal. Features die-cast ...

Transformers were just action figures that ‘80s kids couldn‘t help but obsess over. Able to shape-shift into robots, cars, dinosaurs, and even miniature guns, the toys hit American markets in ...

Robosen’s partnership with Hasbro continues with a new Bumblebee self-transforming robot toy launching this summer ... who voiced Bumblebee in the ‘80s Transformers cartoon, to record over ...

"Do you know what they introduced at Toy Fair on Thursday? Transformers," Volk-Weiss said. Since Transformers robots could turn into vehicles, each toy was essentially a 2-in-1 for kids to play with.