" 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 ...

As BB-8 rolled out for its big-screen debut in 2015’s “Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens,” an audience of Sphero employees inside Century Theatre in Boulder immediately noticed the same thing ...

The most talked about Star Wars toy to launch during last week’s “Force Friday” is the new BB-8 droid from Boulder’s Sphero (and no — it’s not the $80 one at Target stores). Sphero’s BB-8 sold out ...

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BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4)- A Boulder company is hoping to help kids dive deeper into programing and robotics with the release of a new device. Sphero may sound familiar because it's the company behind ...

Sphero's BB-8 Star Wars is one of the coolest Star Wars-inspired toys we've seen released this year. The "magic" behind the BB-8 robot is the way it moves, and a video teardown of the toy shows how ...

After 18 months of stealth development, Sphero’s autonomous robot lab debuts as Misty Robotics, promising an affordable home helper in 2018. If attendees at this year’s CES took a moment to remove ...

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.

Among the inevitable avalanche of merchandise that accompanied the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens last year, Sphero's little app-controlled BB-8 was a clear standout. An instant ...

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Sphero’s BB-8 was arguably the most compelling bit of merchandising, which is, naturally, saying a lot. The latest Star Wars film was, as anticipated, a merch juggernaut, but there was no better bit ...