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.

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 ...

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 ...

A new STEM-friendly Lego set teaches kids how to construct their own robots and learn computer coding while they do it.

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 ...

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 ...

Finally, Lego was looking for people who could hack Mindstorms and help the company create a third-party programming environment.

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 Lego WeDo system also has available software to program the robots, an activity pack to guide learning and an excellent guide for teachers to facilitate teaching.

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 ...