You played with it for hours on end after it was first released, but by the time The Force Awakens hit theaters months later, you had probably lost interest in your Sphero BB-8. But don’t bury the ...

The SPRK program, short for Schools Parents Robots Kids, is divided into two main segments: Core and Stem. Core is a series of lessons designed to help kids build their coding skills, both visual- and ...

After just a month and a half, Orbotix's education initiative using Sphero to teach children programming is gathering serious momentum. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...

BOULDER, CO--(Marketwired - August 04, 2015) - Sphero, leaders in connected play, announced today the launch of the new Sphero SPRK Edition -- the robot designed to inspire tomorrow's inventors and ...

Although the importance of programming education is being questioned around the world, programming work is hard to attach, so many tools for expanding its "entrance" have been developed. Among them, a ...

Sphero might have been commissioned to create what could be the new Star Wars mascot, but it's definitely not pouring all its resources into that lone one hit wonder. While its main focus is still on ...

Many parents want to teach their children how to code, but do not know how to go about doing it. Sphero, the company behind the BB-8 toy robot based on the droid from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, has ...

Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...

Nearly two years ago, Sphero decided to turn its robot ball into more than a toy. The company launched SPRK, an educational program for kids to build up their coding skills, as a complement to its ...

Have you always wanted to program and play with your own robot? Challenge and inspire your mind with the new Sphero SPRK Edition. New Scientist and Sphero are giving away five of the popular spherical ...

Analysts, researchers, and even governments believe that IT jobs will still be en vogue by 2020, but the number of jobs will outnumber the roster of students capable of filling those openings. That's ...