Only in Japan - the land of Astro Boy and Asimo - a Japanese engineer has developed a fully functioning real transformer robot. Conceived and built by engineer and confessed robot fanatic Kenji Ishida ...

Age of the Primes toys are releasing in 2026, with these capped off by a mammoth action figure from a Beast Wars anime.

Megatron and Bumblebee transform and roar out into the samurai era with new Japanese beast modes as part of the Transformers ...

A team of roboticists have taken another step toward the inevitable future where real-life Transformers move among us. New research on modular, autonomous robots was published Wednesday that shows how ...

Robosen Robotics has outdone themselves as they have announced their latest Transformers Auto-Converting robot. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are getting some company as Grimlock has arrived. That is ...

Why would you manually transform a Transformers toy when you can get a robot that doesn't just transform, but dances? Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled ...

A real-life Transformer has been created by scientists inspired by the Japanese paper-folding art of origami. In tests, the small shape-changing robot folded itself into a functional machine that ...

Japanese electronics giant Sharp just launched RoBoHon, a combined robot and smart phone. The telecommunication gadget comes with a whopping price tag of 198,000 Yen ($1800). Sharp expects to sell ...

Here’s a little robot that knows how to dress for the occasion. Scientists at MIT have built a bot that can, with a little origami action, change its shape from a walking bot to a rolling or even a ...

We haven’t seen any shape-shifting game consoles yet on Transformers… But we bet they’d be the coolest robots around. Until the franchise enacts this awesome idea, fans are doing it for them! In a ...

"Transformers 2" is getting criticized for new characters reflecting stereotypes that recall "Star Wars' " Jar Jar Binks controversy. By The Associated Press Harmless comic characters or racist robots ...