Editor's note: The rules for entering this week's giveaway are different than usual. Please read carefully. Last time we gave away a Sphero app-controlled robot, we had a lot of excited readers. We ...

Robotic ball maker Sphero has introduced a new addition to their range of small rolling robots with the launch of the more affordably priced Sphero Mini which comes complete with its own smartphone ...

Fans of Sphero, the robotic ball that you control with your smartphone, will soon be able to use the ball to navigate fields of flying space rocks as they blast them apart with an anti-matter cannon, ...

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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 newest Star ...

Nearly two years ago, Sphero decided to turn its robot ball into more than a toy. The company launched SPRK, an educational program for kids to build up their coding skills, as a complement to its ...

Sphero, that cute robotic ball that proves that BB-8's underlying physics work, is more than a toy. It's a great way of teaching children how to code. Kids have made everything from sea vessels to ...

Over the past year, Sphero has been busy teaming up with Disney on connected toys for film franchises like Star Wars, Spider-Man and Cars. But today the company is launching a product that takes it ...

A robot piloted by a ball of algae can swim through water and move around obstacles, powered only by photosynthesis. Neil Phillips at the University of the West of England, UK, and his colleagues ...