Robots captured the hearts of children long before they stirred the imagination of Silicon Valley. From the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz to R2D2 in Star Wars, these adorable heaps of metal brim with ...

THERE’S one way to get a preview of Star Wars: The Last Jedi before its December release, and it’s inside a new robotic toy from Sphero and the Darkside. Toy maker Sphero entered the George ...

There has never been an R2-D2 toy quite like this. Sphero, the company that helped bring the scene-stealing BB-8 to life in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and then delivered a tiny, but lively BB-8 ...

Look at you, being all blase. You’ve seen it all before, haven’t you? Modern cynic. Try taking a look at this. He may be familiar from CES, but we got new footage of the R2D2 mobile media centre at ...

Robots have come a long way. Once "dumb" machines unable to walk a straight path, now they're in factories, in our phones — speaking to us, learning about us. We've seen a robot designed to shoot guns ...

Meet Cozmo - an adorable toy robot packed with some serious technology. The small pocket-size robot is an interactive buddy that can play puzzle and speed games while using machine learning to get to ...

Ophthalmologists come in all shapes and sizes. But this tiny Robotic Retinal Dissection Device (aptly named "R2D2"), is the smallest we've seen so far. What's more, it operates from inside a single ...

STAR WARS droid R2D2 has been voted the world's favourite robot. STAR WARS droid R2D2 has been voted the world's favourite robot. Another robot from the 1977 film classic, worry- prone C3PO, also ...

A road in Donegal has been renamed the R2D2 in tribute to one of the most famous characters in 'Star Wars'. New signs were unveiled on what was the R242 near Malin Head to mark where scenes from the ...