With the JIMU Robot BuilderBot Series: Overdrive Kit is a box of parts includes programmable motors, sensors, wheels, and a whole lot of bricks with which to make a couple of robots.

This year at CES, Lego is bridging the gap with Boost, a basic robotics- and programming-oriented kit that’s supposed to be more playful than didactic.

One of my many failures as a geek dad has been my inability to get the kids interested in robotics, which is my own passion. The simple educational robots (little single-function machines) I’ve ...

Steve Hassenplug is sitting in a van with seven other people on the way to a Lego convention in Washington, DC, explaining the limitations of Lego's previous robot-building kit, called Mindstorms ...

We decided to make a company dedicated to making building these custom robots as easy as playing with LEGO.” The modules are assembled and tested by HEBI’s eight-person staff.

A Complete Education in Robot Builder's Bonanza My experience with robotics involved some brief hands-on in college and a large amount of hands-on with the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit.

The trouble is, once you’ve finished the tutorial levels the game never really explains how you go about getting more. Here’s how to get gold bricks fast and easy in Lego Worlds.

The Lego Mindstorms kit, which first appeared in 1998, lets you design and build a wide variety of robots. The new Mindstorm NXT, due out Aug. 1, is a complete revamp that makes it even easier to ...

Lego Boost is also a robot kit, and it's more advanced than you might think. A central Bluetooth-connected motorized hub with two separate modules come included.

Lego’s entry-level robotics set is getting an overhaul. The brickmaker today is announcing WeDo 2.0 for elementary classrooms, which will both teach science-related concepts and, more ...