Disney Robot-Toy Makers Sphero Now Making Robots for Frontliners By Techtonic group Sphero is a consumer robotics company that focuses on making fun toy robots for kids to learn with. The company built Disney's BB-8 and R2-D2 toy robots. However, when the licensing deal went off back in 2018, the company stopped making Disney robots. Now, the robot-makers have created a new start-up to make robots specifically for the healthcare workers, police, and the military. The new start-up, named Company Six (CO6), plans to develop reliable robots to help medical workers, like Diligent's Moxi . It also plans to help the law enforcement authorities and the military by providing them with strong, robust robots. Currently, the company builds robots using STEM focusing on education. Now, we do not know at this moment what type of robots will the company develop. However, considering Sphero's experience in making robots focusing on mobility, we can expect the compan...