Motorola's late-2009 Google Android-based cell phone is called the Droid. The term 'Droid' has been used by Verizon Wireless under licence from Lucasfilm, for their line of smartphones based on the Android operating system. Lucasfilm registered 'droid' as a trademark in 1977. Droids are performed using a variety of methods, including robotics, actors inside costumes (in one case, on stilts), and computer animation.
