LEGO introduced its Mindstorms toy robots 15 years ago, starting a movement toward intelligent toys and instigating a large hobbyist community that was interested in the educational value of ...

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Since the first public preview of MINDSTORMS EV3 at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, new and existing fans of all ages have been eagerly awaiting the updated system. The third evolution in ...

There's a new STEM option in town. The Robot Inventor kit can be turned into five robots, which can play basketball, walk, and shoot darts at intruders. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is from a high school student involved in the Illinois Press Foundation/Eastern Illinois University journalism workshop held this week. CHARLESTON -- The start of this week ...

Lego bricks are getting cozy with the iPhone and other Apple devices in the latest incarnation of the Mindstorms robotics kit. Lego is set to announce Monday that a new, $350 Mindstorms EV3 kit will ...

BAXTER--At 3:15 p.m., right on the dot, about 30 students file into a series of rooms and labs on Forestview Middle School's second floor. There Friday, May 4, a group of students congregated around ...

LEGO and Amazon are challenging students to bring voice commands to robots. The two have announced a joint voice challenge, hoping schools will pick up on the contest as an in-class activity. The ...

NORWALK — A group of Roton Middle School students is working to measure and improve water quality off the city’s coast. A seven-member team of seventh-graders are part of the school’s First Lego ...