Students, hobbyists and tech-savvy parents who use–or plan to use–the LEGO Mindstorms kits with the NXT computer module usually program the device through a graphical language such as a subset of ...

According to several reports, Lego has announced that it will discontinue its Mindstorms robotics kit before the end of the year. Lego Mindstorms is a hardware and software building kit that creates ...

There's a new STEM option in town. The Robot Inventor kit can be turned into five robots, which can play basketball, walk, and shoot darts at intruders. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

The LEGO Mindstorms kits are one of the best lines LEGO has released in the last couple years. With the blend of basic computer science and simple building techniques, Mindstorms gives inexperienced ...

Second grade is not too soon to start preparing for a career in computer engineering. That’s the Danish company Lego ’s message in introducing a robotics program designed to teach children as young as ...

The fantastical robotic creations you design and build with Lego Mindstorms are free to explore the world you release them into, so why should you be stuck behind a computer when it comes to ...

You may not know that Lego Mindstorms gets its name from a book by Seymour Papert called Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. I first read this book in the 1980s, and I took its basic ...

Most may remember Lego as the ultimate toy to foster creativity, but with this new generation of the iconic building blocks, kids (and kids at heart) can soon learn how to program their freshly built ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years ...

LAS VEGAS--Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, start your programming engines: Lego Mindstorms EV3 is here. The third full generation of Lego's programmable robotics platform, EV3 is aimed at both ...

The LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robotics kit is the newest, best, and most accessible way to teach your kids or yourself how to build and program robots. Robots are hard to build from scratch unless you have ...