Sphero holds the key to the workings of Star Wars' new droid, BB-8. (Image source: Sphero) Star Wars: Thee Force Awakens won't be hitting theaters until December, but a new character has already ...

Misty has had a hell of a journey of it. After raising $11.5 million from Foundry and Venrock, then crowdfunding its personal robot, the company hit a series of challenges. Today, Swedish social ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

Spun off from toy-droid kingpin Sphero, this startup wants to sell bots that only get more capable as their owners figure out all the things they can do. A peek at Misty, an advanced, programmable ...

3D Robotics Duluth hosted the FIRST Lego League Explore Festival at the Depot, which featured 22 teams made up of kindergarten through third graders in the Duluth and Hermantown areas. Luciana Vega, 4 ...

Some 11 schools across southcentral Kentucky are utilizing one organization’s classroom grants to bolster STEM and STEAM programming with equipment such as Lego robots and graphing calculators. The ...