The company described the Meccanoid G15 KS as a "robotics building platform" designed to encourage children ages 5-14 to build, modify, and program robots—in keeping with the Meccano heritage.

Meccano's Meccanoid robot could be the ultimate toy 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.

With the Meccano Meccanoid, the classic Erector set evolves into an arm-waving, fast-talking, programmable robot for children.

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.

Find out how to program a robot with this KS1 primary computing guide from BBC Bitesize for years 1 and 2.

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 ...

Meccano will unveil its build-it-yourself robotic kit, the Meccanoid G15 KS, at the Toy Show in London's Kensington Olympia today.

We first reported on Spyke in January when he was unveiled at CES. He's a pint-sized robot with built-in Wi-Fi, a microphone and a video camera. The idea: he trundles around your home keeping an eye ...