Connoisseurs of fluffy, huggable Pokémon can now look forward to a new set of goodies to add to their digital shopping carts.

The toy humanoid robot may have to do while we wait a few more years for the life-size autonomous version to go on sale.

Licensed products of the snake version, including toys, badges and keychains, will hit the market in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing and Guangzhou on Friday, also to celebrate the third ...