Meccano is set to launch a build your own robot later this year which is likely to become one of the must have gadgets for Christmas 2015. Called Meccanoid G15 KS, it is made with Meccano parts, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Meccanoid G15 KS is a "four-foot tall, programmable, walking, talking robot" for children. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying ...

"Why did the chicken cross the road?" The Meccanoid can tell jokes and even wish you a happy birthday For more than a century, children have been building trains, cars and cranes with Meccano. Now the ...

Meccano is all set to unveil a WiFi-controlled, Erector-branded robot kit at CES. The Spyke certainly improves on Meccano's earlier metallic attempts at robot sets: this little fella is capable of ...

Some of the toy tech that has shown up at CES this week just makes me wish I was a kid again so that I had an excuse to play with it all day. Leading the pack was definitely the chirruping and highly ...

A Guinness World Records judge found herself getting into a tangle with a robot in Belfast, where students have built the world's largest Meccano construction. A total of 11,000 pieces of lightweight ...

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