Sphero the robotic ball made a bit of a splash at CES last year and it’s back again with the first augmented reality games built around it. There shouldn’t be anything too compelling about a 3-inch (7 ...

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The toy version of BB-8 -- a round, beeping, rolling robot that will appear in the upcoming "Star Wars" movie -- has its origins not so far, far away. The toy version of BB-8 -- a round, beeping, ...

In recent years, Sphero is probably best known for its rolling BB-8 toy based on the chipper droid from the Star Wars sequels, as well as a tiny robotic R2-D2 that’s surprisingly animated and lifelike ...

As a STREAM project during a unit on earth layers, 6th grade students from St. Jude School created a representation of the layers of the Earth, programmed a Sphero robot to talk and travel through the ...

On a recent Tuesday morning, a kindergarten class gathered for an introduction to robotics in STEM teacher Jackie Scotto’s class at Murray Avenue School in Larchmont. Students were separated into ...

The company behind the Sphero robot ball said it is ready for outside developers to start creating apps for the device. Orbotix Inc. said Monday that it is releasing the developer tools as well as ...

With just a little instruction Saturday, seven students got their spherical robots rolling all over the floor of a classroom at Meadowlark Elementary. And they had a ball doing it. “Oh man, that is so ...