Star Wars‑themed droids and vehicles are helping a local foundation bring hands‑on STEAM learning and career exploration to students across the D.C. region.

For a brief glorious moment in 2024, BDX droids roamed Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland. Now those adorable little robots are coming back and going to more than just Anaheim, California. Disney ...

Nvidia spoke about robotics quite a lot during GTC 2025, including its new model called Isaac Groot N1, but this demonstration was all I needed to get on board. In collaboration with Disney and Google ...

A battle droid in 'Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace'; A GH-7 analysis droid in 'Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith'; R5-D4 in 'Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope' If there's one ...

If you’ve fantasized about having your own helper droid since “Star Wars” introduced C-3PO and R2-D2 in 1977, you may want to check out the latest product from Piaggio Fast Forward. Based in ...

Since 2017, the Vespa-maker Piaggio's Fast Forward division has been exploring a unique way to cut down on car trips: Building robots that can follow you around and carry your stuff. We called its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nevertheless, droids are vital to the galaxy’s way of life, and it just wouldn’t be Star Wars without them. For now, we’re paying ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA, Disney Research, and Google DeepMind have partnered to develop Newton, an open-source physics engine for simulating robotic movements. Built on NVIDIA Warp, it aims to optimize robot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And that means they’ll all be there when the Mandalorian and Grogu arrive on Smuggler’s Run in 2026. Described as “playful, ...