R2 series astromech droid

"Uncle Owen!''" "Yeah?" "This R2 unit has a bad motivator. Look!" "''Hey, what're ya' trying to push on us?"

- Luke Skywalker and Owen Lars to a group of Jawa, regarding R5-D4

The R2 unit was a very popular series of astromech droids produced by Industrial Automaton. They stood at around 1 meter in height, and were pragrammed to perform a variety of task. They were designed to be able to fit in the droid sockets commonly found on starfighters. R2-D2 was a notable example of this model. Another was R5-D4, who, despite carrying the prefix "R5" was described as an "R2 unit."