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 ...

Spin Master on Tuesday launched the Meccanoid G15 KS, a "four-foot tall, programmable, walking, talking robot" for children, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Canadian toy company ...

Today’s Meccano factory feels, rather magically, as though it is made of Meccano itself. Once they have been spat out of the cutters, the metal parts that still form the basis of almost every Meccano ...

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 ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Meccano's Mattei Theodore gives a tour of the company's ideas factory An anonymous industrial zone on the outskirts of the French port of Calais is home to one of the great historic names in the toy ...

Classic toy brand Meccano has created a make-your-own robot kit by combining its building pieces with programmable software. The Standard was given a sneak peek at its latest “Meccanoid” at the CES ...

Spin Master on Tuesday launched the Meccanoid G15 KS, a "four-foot tall, programmable, walking, talking robot" for children, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Canadian toy company ...

An anonymous industrial zone on the outskirts of the French port of Calais is home to one of the great historic names in the toy business. Meccano may have been started in the UK more than a century ...