Lego's Mindstorms robotics kits have been on the market since 1998, born from a collaboration between Lego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Lego’s Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit is designed to let kids build and design robots. The set has 949 pieces, including a color sensor, distance sensor, four motors, and Lego’s Bluetooth ...

Lego Mindstorms first debuted back in September of 1998, over 24 years ago, leveraging the company’s more complicated Technics building pieces, featuring gears and other mechanical components ...

The company's most recent Lego Mindstorms release was the $359.99 "LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor 5-in-1 set," which was the first addition to the Lego Mindstorms theme in seven years.

Stanford researchers have hacked the Lego Mindstorms platform as a springboard to create a liquid-handling robotics kit, using inexpensive, off-the-shelf parts.

The Mindstorms kits can be intimidating, even if you're just following instructions, my colleague Scott Stein found. And if you have younger kids, you might look at the Lego Boost robot projects ...

Their charm often doesn't outlive the first set of batteries. The Lego Mindstorms kit, which first appeared in 1998, is different. It lets you design and build a wide variety of robots.

The Mindstorms kit was revolutionary then in offering an accessible fully programmable microcontroller in a toy, along with a full set of LEGO including motors and sensors to use with it.

Even Lego Mindstorm NXT kits, which are good for making robotic gadgets, can be derided as just Arduino for kids. Fortunately, a group of scientists have found an excellent use for Lego Mindstorms ...

Lego's new Mindstorms EV3 kit isn't all just gun-firing robots and killer scorpions. Unfortunately, there's also some learning to be done, with the new Mindstorm EV3 kit ready to land in schools ...

It's now been ten years since the original LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Invention System was first launched in September 1998 to huge success. Since then, a more advanced microprocessor unit and ...