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 ...

Lego's Mindstorms kits were born into a world where the PC reigned supreme for control; the company is ushering in 2013 with an acknowledgment that its build-it-yourself toy is part of a much wider ...

Lego's Mindstorms robotics kits have been on the market since 1998, born from a collaboration between Lego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Now, Lego has announced it will be ...

My inner 9-year-old is blown away, but my outer 35-year-old balks at the $349 price. It’s been a long time—probably 20 years, at least—since I sat down with a giant bunch of Lego bricks in front of me ...

I never had much of an opportunity as a kid to play with mechanical engineering toys or anything remotely to do with robots. As a girl, the world steered me towards toys that fostered imaginary play: ...

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Steve Hassenplug is sitting in a van with seven other people on the way to a Lego convention in Washington, DC, explaining the limitations of Lego’s previous robot-building kit, called Mindstorms. "It ...

Lego builders eagerly anticipating the launch of the new robotics building Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit later this year might be excited to learn about the Lego Mindstorms EV3 bonus models unveiled today ...

Although I received my Lego Mindstorms NXT kit in the mail early last week, it wasn’t until yesterday that I really had a chance to dig in, spending a whole day working through the included ...