Ollie is a polycarbonate cylinder the size of a large soup can ... Unfortunately, doing tricks is a little more haphazard than Sphero’s very polished marketing suggests. It’s a bit like ...

The Sphero ball in action. Image: Sohero. You might have seen Sphero, a toy robotics company, in the news recently. Their programmable robotic ball was recently used by the creators of the ...

It has long been one of our favorite mechanisms. Newer, but also a favorite is the Sphero smartphone controlled orb. The combination of the two is epic! You may remember seeing Sphero used to ...

Call the force Bob — as in Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger, who accelerated Sphero’s year-long quest to turn the new BB-8 droid into the most talked about toy spun out of the coming-soon “Star ...

A "Sphero 2.0 Revealed" version, which features transparent sections on the cover to display the inner workings, will be available exclusively from the Apple Store for the same price.

At least, that's Orbotix's vision of the future. The company first released its Sphero robotic toy in 2011. Now, the ball is back – the newly updated Sphero 2.0 is ready for a second trip around ...