Yuzzums are a sentient species native to the forest moon of Endor in Star Wars. These tall, fur-covered beings have long limbs, round bodies, and expressive faces. Unlike the more famous Ewoks, ...

Regal Robot is back with its latest Star Wars Archive Collection release, unveiling a timed edition scaled prop replica of the Exogorth. Famously known as the "space slug," from The Empire Strikes ...

Piaggio Fast Forward (PFF), a subsidiary of the Vespa-maker Piaggio Group, has teamed up with Disney and Lucasfilm to release a Star Wars-themed version of its Gitamini cargo robot. Called G1T4-M1N1, ...

Regal Robot has launched an incredible new desk organizer inspired by the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope directed by ...

Marc Thorpe, the visual effects artist who worked on various Star Wars and Indiana Jones films and created the Robot Wars concept in the early 1990s — around the same time he was first diagnosed with ...

Inspired by the wheel-bodied battle droids from Star Wars, a scientist has created a robot that rolls along on one big wheel, using extendable legs to steer. Instead of smashing the Rebel Alliance, ...

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 ...

The year is nearly over, and our wallets have spent much of it being drained by all the cool new toys we added to our collection in 2025. How cool? Well, io9’s resident toy collectors banded together ...

He also worked on the first three ‘Indiana Jones’ movies and ‘Poltergeist’ before staging his first combat event in 1994. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Marc Thorpe, who created special effects for Star ...