The big picture: Lego has announced plans to shut down its Mindstorms line of programmable robotics following a 24-year run. Mindstorms debuted in September 1998 as an educational tool for children ...

Midshipmen will use smart bricks to learn about sensors and unmanned systems. The Naval Academy will use some smart bricks from LEGO this fall to teach midshipmen the fundamentals and design of ...

LEGO introduced its Mindstorms toy robots 15 years ago, starting a movement toward intelligent toys and instigating a large hobbyist community that was interested in the educational value of ...

During the coronavirus lockdown, children around the world settled on killing time on their devices playing games, watching videos, or connecting with friends and families on social media. And to ...

Lego's Mindstorms have been a popular platform for teaching robotics. The new Mindstorm NXT takes this to the next level with a sophisticated NXT control module featuring a pair of built-in processors ...