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 ...

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 ...

Lego is back with another generation of MindStorms, the company’s consumer robotics line aimed at introducing application programming to a younger generation. Kids these days grow up with so much ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lego’s Mindstorms kits take the boundless possibilities of Lego blocks (and the mechanical potential of the Technic system) and add robotics components like servo motors, sensors, and a brain you can ...

The universe in which this LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 unit exists is not one made for a tiny, limited cross-section of creative children and those that want to see their models move. When you see "10+" on ...

The new Lego set is inspired by the original Mindstorms and compatible with all Lego bricks. With its bright, flat cables hanging out everywhere, it may look like some retro computer cobbled together ...