Lego’s new robotics set lets kids program a cat to play the harmonica And, you know, build robots, too by Adi Robertson Jan 3, 2017, 9:01 PM PST ...

Vernie is one of five models that children ages 7-to-12 can build and program with Lego’s new Boost kit. The new, 543-piece Lego set, introduced this week at CES in Las Vegas, is like the ...

The Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit is the best way to teach kids (or yourself) how to build and program robots, with a Bluetooth-capable brain, multiple motors, nearly 1,000 pieces, and ...

Sumner and Bennett, along with five other pairs of participants, spent one recent morning building robots as part of a Lego robotics challenge — an international program known as FIRST Lego ...

Lego has been experimenting with robots since the mid-80s, leading up to the use of the Mindstorms brand to teach kids not only how to construct their own robots but how to program them as well.

Today at the SXSWedu Conference in Austin, Lego Education demonstrated a new EV3 programming app for use with its Mindstorms Education EV3 platform. The combination of a physical EV3 robot and the app ...

Lego Mindstorms has taught hordes of teens to learn how to program robots. Now Lego Group is launching Lego Boost, a series of toy robots that can teach younger kids how to code.

Lego Mindstorms robots have done wonders getting kids interested in science and programming. Now Lego Education is launching a new robot learning system, dubbed WeDo 2.0, to help teach kids about ...

The 100 developer-program members Lego announced Friday come from 26 countries (though 40 percent are American), range in age from 18 to 75, and are heavily technical. Only six are women.

Jonah McKay, 12, handled most of the programming, while twin brothers Eamonn and Macky Schwartz, both 14, built the Lego robot. Collectively, the Canning, N.S., boys are known as The Flying ...