<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Astromech droid </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Affiliation </Th> <Td> Resistance </Td> </Tr> <P> BB - 8 (or Beebee - Ate) is a droid character in the Star Wars franchise, appearing in both the 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens and 2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi films . Spherical with a free - moving domed head, BB - 8 is portrayed by both a rod puppet and a remote - controlled robotic unit . </P> <P> Scanlan told Entertainment Weekly in November 2015 that the robot's design came from an original sketch by Abrams, saying "It was a very simple sketch, beautiful in its simplicity of a ball with this little dome on top ." Of BB - 8's design "with differently shaped panels on each side to help the viewer's eye track movement", Scanlan said "If you had parallel patterns that ran around the circumference, they would be less informative as to the direction BB - 8 was traveling than a slightly more chaotic pattern ." </P>

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