Every Star Wars fan has wondered what it'd be like to have their own droid buddy like R2-D2 and BB-8 rolling around with them. In 2015, Sphero helped us realized that dream with an app-controlled ...

Despite quite a few articles stating Sphero was behind the technology that made the real movie BB-8 droid, like this Tech Crunch article: Sphero, makers of the eponymous spherical robots that ...

Just announced is a BB-8 toy from Sphero that is really pretty amazing. Produced by Darren Weaver Follow TI Video: On Facebook More from Tech The seventh film in the "Star Wars" franchise ...

An curved arrow pointing right. As the lead droid in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," BB-8 is a fully functioning robot that became an instant favorite among fans. Soon, you'll be able to get your ...

Joshua Carr, a lead engineer at IBM, decided to take Sphero's excellent "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" BB-8 app-powered droid and take it a step further with the ability to control it with his mind.

The BB-8 Droid is controlled entirely from an app which is available on iOS and ... but there's definitely a fine art to advanced Sphero control which we haven't quite picked up yet.