No universo, é referido como " Binário ".
The droid blurted out something harsh. Rey scoffed. Her comfort with all things mechanical had made her fluent in binary. “Classified? Really? Well, me too. Big secret. I’ll keep mine and you can keep yours.” - SW: The Force Awakens - Junior Novelisation
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Q. Why is R2-D2 so hard to understand?
A. R2 speaks in binary, a language of beeps and whistles. C-3PO often has to translate to help everyone else understand what he's saying. - SW: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
Ele também é chamado de " Droidspeak "
BB-8 converses in 27th generation droidspeak code, a compressed variant of the most common astromech language - Star Wars: The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary
Você pode querer notar que esta forma de comunicação parece ser uma versão simplificada que pode ser entendida por humanos. Quando o BB-8 tenta se comunicar com R2-D2, sua saudação é descrita como tendo um ...
...transmission sequence too rapid and too exhaustive for any human to follow.