It's the next best thing to using Jedi mind tricks -- Sphero's new Force Band lets you control a mini BB-8 droid with hand gestures. Claire Reilly Former Principal Video Producer Claire Reilly was a ...

Who doesn’t love BB-8? This cute rolling ball of goodness, who made his debut in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, has stolen the show and won people’s hearts. What’s even better is that before the movie ...

Robotics company Sphero has followed up last year’s robo-ball toy with Ollie, a cylindrical robot that cruises at speeds of up to 15 miles per hour. The device costs $99 and will begin shipping on ...

Sphero is a tiny, spherical robot that is powered by your smartphone. It can do tricks, teach you how to program, and let your turn your living room into an arcade game via augmented reality apps.

BOULDER, CO--(Marketwired - Sep 4, 2014) - Sphero, leaders in connected play, announced today the launch of their next generation app-controlled robot Ollie. Initially introduced as Sphero 2B at CES ...

Orbotix Sphero 2B, unveiled at CES 2014, is super fast and uber cool. The new version of the company's original Sphero robot is a cylindrical toy that can zip around very fast on its pair of wheels.

NEW YORK — The new BB-8 droid, which will appear in "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" in December, already has a high-tech mini-me or two — and Sphero's version in particular has a trick or ...

Sphero makes some pretty cool stuff, but among the coolest gizmos it produces are its line of Star Wars droids. These app-enabled droids are miniature versions of the droids we know and love from the ...

Ollie is the latest phone-controlled toy from the developers behind the Sphero robotic ball. For Ollie, the team actually reduced the toy’s functionality so that it’s basically just a super fast ...