There has never been an R2-D2 toy quite like this. Sphero, the company that helped bring the scene-stealing BB-8 to life in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and then delivered a tiny, but lively BB-8 ...

Like millions of other kids around the world, after seeing the original trilogy, R2-D2 instantly became my favorite Star Wars character. He seemed like the perfect sidekick, but the real Artoo was ...

Toy producer Sphero has launched two more robots based on droids from 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi,' with the introduction of R2-D2 and BB-9E accompanied by new Swift Playgrounds content that can teach ...

The R2-D2 app-enabled droid by Sphero is going to be at the top of Star Wars fans’ shopping lists this holiday season. Disney and Sphero unveiled the new droid to the public today, but we shot a sneak ...

Boulder toy-robot maker Sphero has tapped its engineering force to bring to life the robot the world has loved for 40 years: R2-D2. The iconic Star Wars droid plus new guy BB-9E were unveiled Thursday ...

When I reviewed BB-8 by Sphero, I didn't expect the company would go back and create an R2-D2, too. They built their name on the original remotely controlled sphere – Sphero – and they'd not yet ...

Star Wars toys are announced during a special event called Force Friday that takes place a few months before the release of each movie, and robot company Sphero had two big surprises for fans this ...

Star Wars and Sphero were a match made in heaven. The company had spent a few years in relative startup obscurity when Disney came along with the design for a new droid debuting in the upcoming ...

Every Christmas in the ’80s, I wanted the same thing as many other pint-sized Star Wars fans: a robot sidekick to call my own. And not just any old droid would do: It had to be an R2-D2, specifically ...

Robosapien, a burping, kung-fu fighting robot, is one of this year's hot Christmas gifts. But an older, pudgier counterpart--an out-of-production R2-D2 robot from "Star Wars"--is proving a popular ...

We may only be heading into September, but I'm calling it: you're looking at Sphero's R2-D2, and it's going to be the must-have toy of the 2017 holidays. Revealed today as part of the Star Wars "Force ...

OOLITIC, Ind. (AP) - "Man! Where did you buy that thing?" It's probably the most common question Scott, Denise, Sydney and Daphney Sproles hear when the Oolitic family are out and about with their 300 ...