It's been a good week for rolling robots. Sphero, the robot ball you control with your smartphone, is expanding its reach and adding more apps that take advantage of its internal lighting and movement ...

For those of you who've not yet seen this little device in action, I definitely recommend you head below at least for the video of it being controlled by its creating group's CEO, for this is Sphero, ...

You remember Sphero, right? Last we checked in with its creators from Orbotix at E3, the $130 robotic ball was getting ready to act as a 3D controller and the guide point for an Augmented Reality ...

Before we talk about this deal, we need to get something out of the way: the amount of fun you’ll have with a Sphero Mini App-Controlled Robot Ball is not accurately portrayed by the bizarre ...

In the same "fun, but impractical" vein as the AR.Drone quadricopter, the Sphero is a robotic ball remotely controlled by an app on the iPhone. Approximately the size of a baseball, the Sphero ...

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 ...

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 ...

Startup Orbotix recently launched Sphero, a new robotic ball that can be controlled from an iPhone via BlueTooth. The company just released new games, Chromo and Sphere Space Fighter, that can be ...

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 ...

Setting up Sphero is fairly simple. In its clear plastic box, you'll find an alabaster orb, a blue induction charging base and the power cord. Plug the base into a wall outlet, set Sphero in the ...

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 ...