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A micro robotic creature to amuse children, and that they can use to freak out the parents or anyone who was squicked by the robot bugs in the movie Runaway or the crablike Gravlocks in Season 3 of ...

Blame it on R2D2, or Bumblebee, but I have a soft spot in my heart for cute scrappy robots. Few robotic toys are as endearing in their efforts as the creations known as Hexbugs. A line of animal-like ...

BARTONVILLE, Texas Joel Carter said he knew it when he saw it. Hobbyists were lining up at a trade show a few years ago to pay $30 for a zipped bag filled with a dollar s worth of components and ...

Live insects usually frighten children when they crawl or scurry around the house as unwanted intruders, but take that concept and mechanize it, and you get the fun Hexbug line of micro robotic ...