Yesterday, The Lego Group announced it will discontinue its Mindstorms-branded products at the end of 2022, as first reported by Brick Fanatics and several other Lego fan websites. In an official ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Lego ...

Which LEGO robot kit is best? LEGO has been making childhood toys for more than 50 years and now even offer kits that allow your child to build a robot. These sets encourage young kids to explore and ...

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 ...

Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept method for programming mechanical properties into solid Lego-like building blocks. By controlling the solidity of hundreds ...

Learn to code with this Lego Robot Inventor kit, now $287.99 in Lego's Black Friday sale. But with retirement on the way you'll have to grab it before it's gone. When you purchase through links on our ...

A robot made of Lego can quickly perform an important step for creating machines made of DNA. “This started as a final project in an undergraduate lab course,” says Rizal Hariadi at Arizona State ...

Sixth-grader Rory Hinkle (right) works with fifth-grader Annika Bock on their robot mission Wednesday at Prairie Creek Intermediate School in Cedar Rapids. The team will be competing Saturday in the ...