Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round of the coolest merchandise on the internet lately! This week,…

For many kids, crusts are the bane of a delicious PB&J sandwich, but they eventually grow up to embrace a bread’s…

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of all things good and plastic. This week: Hasbro turns its…

I’ll admit that I wasn’t the biggest fan of boba tea even before the pandemic brought my social life to a grinding…

Science fiction is a genre that’s full of storylines, plot devices, and techno-jargon that would be considered…

Things being the way they are, it didn’t seem likely that 2020 would follow in 2019's footsteps in terms of ushering…

In another example of unsettling biomimicry, engineering researchers from the University of New South Wales in…

This is not a movie; this is real life. It is not a drill. In about a decade, we might see a ton of robots working…

Contact lenses offer a more comfortable alternative to wearing glasses for those with vision issues, but that’s…

Real-life robots are still relatively primitive compared to those featured in science fiction, but that hasn’t…

The human workers whose jobs restocking the shelves at Walmart were nearly rendered obsolete by a sophisticated…

One of the obvious giveaways that you’re interacting with a robot is their blank dead-eyed stare. The eyes don’t…

Universal has spent so long trying to get its Battlestar Galactica movie off the ground we’ve literally had an…

Back in June, Boston Dynamics made more than 150 units of its robotic dog Spot available for sale to outside…

Agility Robotics has announced a $20 million funding round for a robot that looks like a Greek myth crossed with a…

It’s 2020, and while the skies aren’t full of flying cars like we thought it would be by now, something else…

In HBO Max’s Raised by Wolves, humanity’s last real hope for survival lies in the existence of a group of children…

As we enter the fall hiking season, we may find ourselves carrying the bare necessities in a heavy backpack: a…

Giant robots are cool. Giant superheroes, too. Giant monsters? Also cool. But you know what makes them cooler?…

Screw batteries and charging cables—2020 has been such a rough year that even the robots are turning to drink.