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 ...

A pair of large, cute blue eyes stopped me in my tracks as I wandered through the convention center at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. There stood a robot, about the size of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Children walk with a 'Meccanoid G15 KS' robot in London, England. The Meccanoid robot was rude to participants in this study, which helped them concentrate. Children walk with a 'Meccanoid G15 KS' ...

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 ...