LAS VEGAS–Sphero is an oddly playful robotic ball that you control from a smartphone or tablet. It seems packed with personality, which makes it hard not to like. It made a minor splash at CES a ...

Sphero is a ball with a difference. While most balls are passive, merely reacting to the way you kick/throw/hit them, this one's actually a clever little robot that can control the path of its roll ...

We first saw Sphero, the smartphone-controlled robotic ball, at last year’s CES–but it was just a prototype then. Now it’s a product that retails for $129 and has five available free apps with ...

Sphero’s second mini kit, Sphero Mini soccer, is inspired by the sport of soccer. Included in the kit is Sphero mini robotic ball with a soccer-ball style shell and cones. Kids can use the Sphero Play ...

Orbotix has the hottest set of robot balls out there, and it's finally showing what they really look like to the public. The Boulder-based startup recently released photos and video of the final form ...

The first time I was chased around a room by a glowing, buzzing ball I was in college and I had just come home from a rave. The last time was when I opened the Sphero and set it loose on my rug. The ...

Orbotix’s Sphero — a small robotic ball you remote-control with a smartphone or tablet — is one of those gizmos that runs the risk of being something you love for half an afternoon and then stick in ...

As odd app-controlled gadgets went, the Sphero robotic ball was probably 2011's most unusual, and now the company is back with Sphero 2.0, the next-gen version. Still a robo-ball that you can navigate ...

One of the fun toys we saw at the Consumer Electronics Show last week was the Sphero, a robotic ball that can be controlled from an iOS, Windows Phone, or Android device. While Sphero isn’t due out ...

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This is a software world: things we used to do with hardware are now handled by low-cost processors. But that means we need more and more developers to write and maintain that code, but where are ...