article_snippet.sent: The robot, called BB-8 (left) stars in the eagerly anticipated film Star Wars:
article_snippet.sent: The Force Awakens’s a question that’s got Twitter talking, with a user named Jock tweeting: BB8?
article_snippet.sent: ’ Joshua Harris, a teenager from Oxford said: ‘#BB8 is one of the few things in life that makes me want to understand engineering, while Video editor Ron Dot Org tweeted:
article_snippet.sent: Speaking about filming the movie, JJ Abrams said: 'There were a lot of discussions about how having a CGI BB-8 could be so much easier for shooting.
article_snippet.sent: Here, BB-8 the rolling droid BB-8 is spotted inside the Millennium Falcon, peeking around a corner .
article_snippet.sent: He confirmed that BB-8 was ‘built and puppeteered’ in the film, but no strings were visible when the beeping, chirping droid rolled on stage, leading experts to speculate that BB-8 was ‘built and puppeteered’ in the film must be controlled by at least one remote control.
article_snippet.sent: the droid’s's currently a mystery as to how BB-8 moves, but the droid’s white and orange case may hide a larger mechanism like that found in Sphero, which allows the droid’s to move quickly in any direction.
article_snippet.sent: Sphero's been suggested that BB-8 may use similar technology in BB-8 body.
highlights_snippet.sent: BB-8 moved in all directions on stage at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim .
  