The Orb Swarm is slowly taking its place in history:

The Institute for Personal Robots in Education has included an image of the Orb Swarm in the beginning of Chapter 12 of their fine textbook, Introduction To Computer Science Via Robots.
The chapter’s title, “Fast, Cheap And Out Of Control”*, is deeply satisfying for it recall of the illustrious Rodney Brooks, but inaccurate in that the orbs are none of these three things.

When the Orbs are trashing their hotel rooms and refusing to perform unless all the 10k resistors are removed from the green room snack try, we can all say we knew them when.

Incidentally, the IPRE is a great resource for high level robotics education and other robotics stuff.

*Fast Cheap and Out Of Control is also, of course, the title of a splendid documentary by Errol Morris featuring Professor Brooks, Dave Hoover the wild animal trainer, George Menodça the topiary gardener, and Ray Mendez the naked mole rat specialist. You should watch it as soon as possible if you have not, and watch it again if you have.