The buzzy new Star Wars toy is a real-life robot that is controlled by smartphones Writer-Reporter, PEOPLE You no longer have to go to a galaxy far, far away to have an authentic Star Wars experience.

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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 ...

The Force is strong with the small Boulder robot toymaker picked by Disney to build a toy based on a character sure to be next R2-D2. Call the force Bob — as in Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger, who ...

Dust off your power tools because you can now create your very own BB8 droid from the new “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.” Christian Poulsen, an industrial designer from Utah, found an ...

Sphero is perhaps best known for its mini Star Wars droids, but the company also makes edutainment bots for kids. And now the firm has turned its Public Safety Division into a brand new company ...

When Disney unleashed a slew of new toys for its latest upcoming “Star Wars” movie, a little app-controlled robot named BB-8 stole consumer hearts — and sold out at many stores. But BB-8 wasn’t at ...

Like Sphero's other toys, the BB-8 connects to iOS or Android devices (Sphero tweeted that it's working on Windows Phone support), though there's no need if all you want to do is keep it safe in the ...

The "BB-8 by Sphero" is a robot toy that combines the high-tech remote-control spherical fun of the original Sphero with the life force of the newest droid hero from Star Wars. This is the "ball droid ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. This may be the oddest way to “enjoy” a toy — it’s certainly one of the most passive — but Sphero’s BB-8 isn’t a ...

Usually, when you fall in love with a cool gadget depicted in the latest science fiction blockbuster, the best you can hope for is that maybe, maybe, some gifted entrepreneur will be inspired to bring ...