The brand-new Lego Mindstorms EV3 platform is designed to make it easy for adults and children alike to program robots. The new platform comes with an all-new series of sensors and motors.

Lego Mindstorms says an improved color sensor can detect the presence of six colors or the absence of color. The system is backwards- compatible with previous-generation Lego Mindstorms NXT robots.

The EV3 Programmer App consists of the 11 most popular programming blocks in the LEGO MINDSTORMS software, including action blocks, flow blocks and comment blocks. After writing and saving a program ...

A built-in infrared sensor expands the possibilities for a more autonomous design, as well -- Lego suggests that EV3 constructs can follow other moving gadgets, or even their creators, around the ...

Lego is back with another generation of MindStorms, the company's consumer robotics line aimed at introducing application programming to a younger generation. Kids these days grow up with so much ...

Anyone older than 10 can build their own robot using this kit: a collection of LEGO Technic pieces and a robot brain you can easily program.

We try building our first Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot, and make some decent headway.

The newly updated Lego robotics kit builds on the concepts of the NXT 2.0 system and then adds better app support, and updated programming interface, and a new infrared sensor.

The Lego Education Mindstorms EV3 includes a curriculum package with more than 30 hours of middle school classroom instruction that is packed with videos to enhance learning and application.

They include four motors (EV3 has three), a color and light sensor, a distance sensor, the new Intelligent Hub, and more than 900 additional Lego Technic and System pieces for building the five ...