Sphero reveals mysterious, evil BB-9E and glorious R2-D2 robots

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 robot toy, is breaking the traditional Sphero ball mold with a pitch-perfect 1:24 scale R2-D2 toy robot.

And it’s magnificent.

Not only did Sphero get every detail right — the colors, the lights, and sounds (directly from Lucas Film Archives’ original Star Wars: A New Hope recordings) — but Sphero’s R2-D2 app-enabled-droid moves like the real thing.

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