A team of Hilo keiki will pit their Lego robot against 49 others in Honolulu today at the FIRST Lego League State Tournament. Seven Hilo students make up the Lava Bots, the only East Hawaii FIRST Lego ...

Xiaomi is producing a plastic toy robot that you can assemble into different forms, and control with an app. Called the Toy Block, the coding toy appears to rely on Lego-like pieces. The kit will come ...

The new Lego Boost building and coding set will help teach kids robotics and how to code. The $160 Lego Boost set combines traditional Lego block building, electronic components and programming to ...

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LEGO has released an official app for Android smartphones that allows users to remotely control their Mindstorm NXT robots by moving the handset. LEGO MINDroid is a free download for Android 2.1 ...

Toys that teach kids to code are as hot in 2017 as Cabbage Patch Kids were in 1983, and for good reason. For today's generation of children, learning how to program is even more important than ...

With programmable robots and student competitions, Lego is making “tinkering with machines cool again” Franz Lidz Lego’s new Mindstorms EV3 kit lets users build 17 different robots and program them ...

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A new type of hydrogel material could soon make assembling complex microfluidic or soft robotic devices as simple as putting together a LEGO set. Using a new type of dual polymer material capable of ...