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Hasbro has developed a range of toy bugs based on technology used by the US government to create robots. The BIO (Bio-mechanical Integrated Organisms) Bugs are the first toys to use “nervous network” ...

(CBS) - You know what the world needs? More bugs. It's not enough that they already outnumber us 100 million to one. Toy company Hexbug has decided to make little robot larvae, which could hatch into ...

What do a mighty morphing dinosaur, several children in a trench coat, and a swarm of smiling robots have in common? They know there’s power in numbers — at least when it comes to their constituent ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Toy bugs, an eighth grade Minnesota boy, and a school science project. Put the three together and you get a combination that's already being used to save hearing aid wearers big ...

New York (CNN) — Loveable or creepy? Depends on who you ask. Furby, the ’90s toy phenomenon that divided kids and parents into opposing camps when it first hit stores and quickly became a craze, is ...

I bought a crab-shaped HEX BUG from Bandai and tried to move it because the new product of insect-type robot "HEX BUG" series will be released on Saturday, August 9. It is just a crab itself, and it ...

OK, so your kids haven’t even seen the movie yet. But they’re probably already bugging you about the toys from A Bug’s Life. This being Disney, opportunities abound for tie-in toys. But the star?

View Slideshow A mechanical bug toy is fighting a robotic dog for more than just space under the Christmas tree this year. The two toys represent rival schools of thought vying for supremacy in the ...

March 6 -- In the end, the "Scooter Bug" gave some parents the jitterbug. Measuring a mere three inches long with a sunny yellow face, bright pink antennae and florescent orange little feet, the ...