Abrams revealed that he came up with the idea of BB-8's name himself. He stated that he picked it because of the droid's round and bouncy look: I named him BB-8 because it was almost onomatopoeia. It was sort of how he looked to me, with the 8, obviously, and then the two B's.
In an interview with Wired, director J.J. Abrams refers to BB-8 as a “he,” while Neal Scanlan, the head of the creature shop at Lucasfilm, seems a bit more confused in his talk with EW: I'm still not sure, dare I say, whether BB-8 is male or female. BB-8 was female in our eyes.
A skittish but loyal astromech, BB-8 accompanied Poe Dameron on many missions for the Resistance, helping to keep his X-wing in working order. When Poe's mission to Jakku ended with his capture by the First Order, BB-8 fled into the desert with a vital clue to the location of Luke Skywalker.
Sound editor Walter Murch states that he is responsible for the utterance which sparked the name for the droid. Murch asked for Reel 2, Dialog Track 2, in the abbreviated form "R-2-D-2".
They aren't abbreviations — they're model and serial numbers. R2 is a second generation R-series astromech, serial number D2. * And C-3PO is a C-series protocol droid with the serial number 3PO.
R2-D2 was present when Padmé gave birth to Leia and Luke, so he knew Luke was Anakin's son – but what he didn't know was that Anakin became Darth Vader. In addition to that, Anakin's fall was surely a painful event in R2-D2's life, one that he definitely wouldn't like to remember or even talk about.
R2-D2, pronounced Artoo-Detoo and often referred to as R2 (Artoo), was an R2-series astromech droid manufactured by Industrial Automaton with masculine programming.
BB-9E is the literal dark side version of the lovable BB-8 droid from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It's not cute. It's not happy. This astromech makes angry sounds and has a utterly mysterious story line and purpose, which makes it 10 times more evil.
While robots have appeared in prior Star Wars movies, BB-8 is believed to be the first actually portrayed by a real remote-controlled robot, rather than by an actor or a puppet or by using special effects, such as CGI.
The droid was also taken hostage on Jakku by a scavenger before being rescued by Rey. BB-8 then stood by Rey's side, trusting her for the duration of the trilogy. The fact that the droid was once again with its rescuer after a series of tumultuous events served as a symbolic full-circle moment.
It's best not to think too hard about the “lives” droids lead in the Star Wars universe. Droids like C-3PO are beloved friends, but they're also built to serve their masters, and they can (and do) have their minds wiped at whim.
The motorized arm has a spherical joint that allows it to flex in any direction. The head rotation motor is probably attached to the end of the mast. The head itself is probably very light and has magnetic rollers attached to the base. That would allow it to smoothly roll over the spheric body.
Droids, such as R2-D2 and C-3PO, have been a part of the Star Wars galaxy for a long time and come in a variety of shapes and roles. Huyang is the oldest droid in Star Wars, created 25,000 years ago, and played a vital role in teaching Jedi Younglings about constructing lightsabers.
According to the official movie script, the orange and white spherical droid named BB-8 communicates in “BEEPS — FAST, MORSE CODE-LIKE SOUNDS” (p. 3). It is also described in the script as “SKITTERY.” BB-8 does not speak, so all of the captioned descriptions of BB-8 are nonspeech captions.
BB-8 is a robot character in the Star Wars franchise, first appearing in the 2015 movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It is a sphere-shaped robot with a free-moving domed head. BB-8 is portrayed by both a rod puppet and a remote-controlled robotic unit.
Towards the very start of George Lucas' creation of R2-D2, both he and C-3PO had speaking roles, leaving R2-D2's trademark bleeps without a place in the story. This plan was abandoned eventually, but C-3PO does often explain to the audience that R2-D2's bleeps often translate to swear words.
C-3PO (/ˌsiːˈθriːpioʊ/) or See-Threepio is a humanoid robot character in the Star Wars franchise. He is a protocol droid designed to assist in etiquette and translation, and is fluent in over six million forms of communication.
After the Clone Wars, however, Brooks Propulsion Devices, the company responsible for the development of his boosters, was shut down, and his rocket boosters were eventually damaged and thus could not be repaired. Despite this, however, R2 hardly regretted the loss of his ability to fly.
secondly, in Legends, R2 was given programming that actually restricted him. from sharing any information with Luke or Leia. about their parents or relation to one another. this was all part of the plan. to conceal this information from the twins.
Darth Vader acts like he doesn't even know C-3PO or R2D2. They were with him since he was a child. He did everything he could to forget his past. Also, his plating had been replaced many times, and protocol droids all look very similar.
