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Following on from the success of the BB-8 robot, Sphero has released a R2-D2 robot that is powered by Sphero technology. This is accompanied by an app which is available for iOS and Android (operating system) powered devices. [24] The R2-D2 droid, unlike the BB-8 and Sphero droids is not inductively charged, instead, a micro-USB connection is used.
R2-D2 (/ ˌ ɑːr. t uː ˈ d iː t uː /) or Artoo-Detoo [1] is a fictional robot character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas.He has appeared in ten of the eleven theatrical Star Wars films to date, including every film in the "Skywalker Saga", which includes the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy and the sequel trilogy.
Tiger Electronics has been part of the Hasbro toy company since 1998. [8] [9] Hasbro paid approximately $335 million for the acquisition. [10]In 2000, Tiger was licensed to provide a variety of electronics with the Yahoo! brand name, including digital cameras, webcams, and a "Hits Downloader" that made music from the Internet (mp3s, etc.) accessible through Tiger's assorted "HitClips" players ...
A platform game with a cartoon robot hero Fantavision: 1985 Ami, AppII, AppGS, MS-DOS Animation program based around "tweening" and transforming objects. Galactic Empire: 1980 AppII, ATR, TRS80 Brøderbund's first game; a science fiction strategy space conquest game Genetic Drift: 1981 AppII, ATR A shoot 'em up video game written by Scott Schram
Onboard the Falcon, R2-D2 successfully repairs C-3PO. At the beginning of Return of the Jedi (1983), Luke sends C-3PO and R2-D2 to the palace of the crime lord Jabba the Hutt, who has purchased the frozen Han from the bounty hunter Boba Fett. To C-3PO's dismay, R2-D2 plays a recorded message in which Luke offers the droids as a goodwill gift to ...
R2-D2 is a fictional robot in the Star Wars franchise. R2-D2 or R2D2 may also refer to: R2d2 (mouse gene) Right 2 Dream Too, a homeless people's organization in Portland, Oregon, US; Phalanx CIWS, a naval defensive weapon system, nicknamed R2-D2; Staatstrojaner, a German state-sponsored trojan horse computer program, nicknamed R2-D2
BB-8 is a spherical robot with a free-moving domed head. It is white, with orange and silver accents and a black optical lens on its headpiece. BB-8 also possesses multiple panels containing various tools or ports. Scanlan said of the robot's personality, "We always imagined BB-8 as being quite manipulative. I think he knows he's cute.
Both Kenner and Hasbro released B-wing toys, [15] [16] the B-wing is part of two Micro Machines three-packs, [17] [18] and Lego has made several B-wing sets. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] A Micro Machines Alpha Fleet package includes models both of the B-wing's film appearance and of an initial production design. [ 22 ]