Each helmet has an inbuilt throat mic fitted at the bottom that detects your normal speaking voice and replaces it with a R2-D2-esque monologue. And while it may sound like a bunch of ...

R2-D2 gets around on a pair of treads. Credit: lili sams/mashable As for the evil and somewhat inscrutable BB-9E, its animations are very similar to BB-8, but the look and audio are darker.

ElevenLabs hackathon developers created a technology called GGWave that lets two AIs interact with each other using sounds that will sound like gibberish to us. It will be like watching R2-D2 talk ...