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.

Now Lego Education is launching a new robot learning system, dubbed WeDo 2.0, to help teach kids about engineering, technology, and coding.

Danny Benedettelli's next step in his Cyclops project is a functional robot which he can wirelessly control by wearing an exoskeleton made up of Legos.

The LEGO Pixelbot 3000 represents a significant milestone in the fusion of LEGO construction, robotics, and AI technology.

Robotics education in the Gorge got new wind last fall when Google gave $43,000 to two groups in The Dalles for Lego Mindstorms. Kids ages 6 to 18 use the kits to build robots out of sensors, motors ...

The intent is to familiarize adults with concepts in programming and encourage them to work with kids in a Lego robotics competition.

“WeDo Robotics” is for ages 7-10. Lego aficionados will get to build and program models using Technic bricks motors, battery boxes, WeDo software and sensors.

For Bill Tinney, a Seattle-area Flash software developer, his ticket into the program was his determination to program Mindstorms NXT robots on Macintosh computers.

End effectors can be moved, and software will figure out the necessary motions required to achieve the end results. This functionality is baked into Robot Operating System (ROS) and proves useful ...