The next generation Lego Mindstorms improve on the original 1998 model of do-it-yourself robotics with a “32-bit NXT control brick, ultrasonic sensors, a revamped set of pieces, a new piece of visual ...

Lego, the popular toy brick maker, graduated from simple plastic playthings in 1998 when it released its Mindstorms Robotics Invention System (RIS). Born of a collaboration between Lego and the ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2006--National Instruments (Nasdaq:NATI), a global leader in virtual instrumentation, today announced the NI LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO(R) MINDSTORMS(R) NXT. With ...

Since 1998, LEGO's Mindstorms products have generated a veritable legion of young robot builders, and the company's NXT is the most significant update to its unique robot-building kit to date. The kit ...

Lego plans to release as open source the microprocessor firmware of its programmable robot product line, Mindstorms NXT, the company said Monday. As part of its open-source efforts, the iconic toy ...

Jon Lund took some time out from liveblogging the CustomerMade conference in Copenhagen to email in and tell us that according to Soren Lund of Lego, the software behind the upcoming highly ...

We’ve got it on good word that Lego will be releasing a new firmware version for their Mindstorms NXT robot kit that will “open up 60 to 80% more storage space” for user-made programs. (If you read ...

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For background, LEGO Mindstorms is an incredible robotics kit that combines a programmable "brick" into which you can plug myriad motors, sensors, and other widgets with a graphical programming ...

It's been almost a year since we first saw the Lego NXT Mindstorm kit demoed at CES in Las Vegas, but nine months later, its here in the UK. Robots, Lego and computers, what's not to get excited about ...

Rabid LEGO Mindstorms fans finally have a date to circle on their calendars for hitting the company's website and breaking out their credit cards -- April 1st has been announced as the start of ...