Engineers from Boulder toy maker Sphero have not only shrunk its signature round robot into one about half the size of the original sphere, the new Sphero Mini responds to facial expressions. Users ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As BB-8 rolled out for its big-screen debut in 2015’s “Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens,” an audience of Sphero employees inside Century Theatre in ...

The toy version of BB-8 -- a round, beeping, rolling robot that will appear in the upcoming "Star Wars" movie -- has its origins not so far, far away. The toy version of BB-8 -- a round, beeping, ...

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I might be the only person at Gizmodo that likes Sphero’s new Cars toy. My co-workers hate the way the robot announces it’s going to sleep, and the long animated process it takes to wake up. They’re ...

Company Six will make robots for ‘those who work in dangerous situations’ Company Six will make robots for ‘those who work in dangerous situations’ James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered ...

It’s been a busy year for Sphero, with the release of products like R2-D2, Spider-Man and Lightning McQueen. But the robotic toy startup is still making non-licensed, non-tie in products too — ...

Sphero, the company behind robotic toys like the BB-8 robot and educational robotics kits, announced today that it’s spinning its public safety division into a new company, dubbed Company Six. It ...

Nearly two years ago, Sphero decided to turn its robot ball into more than a toy. The company launched SPRK, an educational program for kids to build up their coding skills, as a complement to its ...

Today, Disney, Lucasfilm, and robotics company Sphero finally unveiled the toy version of BB-8, the droid that's looking like the breakout hit character from the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII: The ...

Sphero's BB-8 Star Wars is one of the coolest Star Wars-inspired toys we've seen released this year. The "magic" behind the BB-8 robot is the way it moves, and a video teardown of the toy shows how ...

After 18 months of stealth development, Sphero’s autonomous robot lab debuts as Misty Robotics, promising an affordable home helper in 2018. If attendees at this year’s CES took a moment to remove ...