At this year's E3, we were introduced to a clever new iPhone and Android peripheral called the Sphero. Developed by Orbotix, Sphero is a robotic ball that can be controlled by using apps on your ...

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 ...

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Luxury Personified, a distributor of electronics and accessories in India has launched Sphero – a popular name among robotic toy lovers all over the world. You can control it with your smartphone or ...

In recent years, Sphero is probably best known for its rolling BB-8 toy based on the chipper droid from the Star Wars sequels, as well as a tiny robotic R2-D2 that’s surprisingly animated and lifelike ...

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, ...

Sphero is known for its line of programmable robot toys that help teach kids how to code while having fun. However, most of its products are designed for older kids and need a companion app (thus a ...

When you think about learning how to code, you may imagine people hunkering down over a laptop in a dark room, staring at lines and lines of incomprehensible words, letters and symbols. You probably ...

The maker of the rolling droid character in the latest installment of “Star Wars” is stocking up on new capital. Sphero Inc. is in the fundraising market and has reached the midway point toward its ...