Educational toysNov 6, 2026
From a 3d-printed ball to the robot every school wants
Official homepage: https://sphero.com/ Sphero's story reads like a Silicon Valley script: two friends build a smartphone-controlled ball in a Boulder, Colorado garage, ride a Disney Accelerator to Star Wars stardom, sell millions of BB-8 toys and then deliberately walk away from Hollywood to focus on classrooms. Today the company claims its robots are used in more than 40,000 schools worldwide, and its store sells everything from a screen-free robot for preschoolers to programmable rovers for teens. Here is our review of this educational toy shop from several angles. Two Friends Turned a 3D-Printed Ball Into a Company Sphero began in 2010 in Boulder, Colorado, when founders Adam Wilson and Ian Bernstein veterans of the local Techstars accelerator …