LAS VEGAS—Fifteen years ago, LEGO launched its Mindstorms line of robotic building blocks. By combining a microcontroller and servos with the classic bricks, LEGO created an accessible way for kids to ...

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 ...

I am a LEGO roboticist. A few weeks ago, we got the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit in the lab, and I've been spending my time honing my craft, building increasingly complicated robots, and programming them ...

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Many tech-savvy kids can operate a smartphone before they can swim or make their own meals. If the folks behind Lego Mindstorms have their way, they'll be creating robots before doing those other ...

LEGO has been into robotics for quite some time now, but today at CES, the company unveiled the new MINDSTORMS EV3 robotic system, which is LEGO's first robotic system that comes with iOS and Android ...

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 ...

The sixth-grade science classes at our school built a Lego Mindstorms EV3 Robot. While completing this project, we also wrote computer programs to move the robot. Then we used a USB cord to connect ...

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 ...

Lego has announced that they will soon be offering up the next-generation of their Mindstorms line. The new system, which is the third-generation of its line, will be the EV3. EV3 sports a bunch of ...