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" Star Wars: The Force Awakens" opens in theaters this December, but you don't have to wait until then to get up close and personal with one of the movie's new characters. Thanks to robot maker Sphero ...

Sphero’s second mini kit, Sphero Mini soccer, is inspired by the sport of soccer. Included in the kit is Sphero mini robotic ball with a soccer-ball style shell and cones. Kids can use the Sphero Play ...

Sphero is known for devices like the Sphere Bolt app-enabled robot, the BB-8 toy that launched alongside Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the new Sphero Specdrums, which Sphero launched at CES 2019.

Originally sold as the world’s first remote control ball, Sphero’s baseball-sized rolling toy has evolved over the years to eventually become one of the most accessible ways to learn the basics of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Fighting zombies with a smartphone-controlled ball is certainly fun, if you can justify the price tag. Orbotix's Sphero 2.0 is a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. While he's a very cool Star Wars droid, sadly little BB-8 is the outcast of the Sphero galaxy. Star Wars fever is upon us as we approach ...

Connected toys from Sphero generally have one thing in common, movement. We've seen rolling robot balls and tubes, and even a small BB-8 droid from Star Wars which users could control with the Force ...

Orbotix’s new Sphero 2B toy is a bit like an "S" model of an iPhone. The smartphone-controlled toy, which ships this fall, still lets you whip around your living room with reckless abandon. But as a ...

Orbotix, the makers of a small, spherical robot named Sphero, have decided to promote the new Sphero 2.0 with a riff on one of 2013’s hottest tech stories: the announcement of Amazon’s Prime Air drone ...

The latest robot ball off the Sphero production line is the Sphero Bolt, part toy and part coding tutor. We've been sending the tennis ball-sized spherical gadget zooming around various rooms and ...