This new Mindstorms line, now backwards-compatible with the NXT series, touted several expected enhancements to its sensor load and processing might.

We got a look at the new Mindstorms NXT robotics kits from Lego. And a new sensor for the 2.0 version can, amazingly, detect the difference between colors. Cool.

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 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.

Lego just announced their Mindstorm NXT which is (gulp) "smarter, stronger, and more intuitive than ever." The new toolset features a wide range of sensors allowing your bot to now sense and react to ...

Although I received my Lego Mindstorms NXT kit in the mail early last week, it wasn’t until yesterday that I really had a chance to dig in, spending a whole day working through the included ...

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As with all Lego we've ever tested here at Pocket-lint, the NXT Mindstorm set is incredibly well put together and the step by step instructions to get you going are simple and easy to understand.

Lego’s Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit is designed to let kids build and design robots. The set has 949 pieces, including a color sensor, distance sensor, four motors, and Lego’s Bluetooth ...

Lego released the first version of Mindstorms in 1998, and the second iteration, Mindstorms NXT, almost exactly six years ago at that year's edition of the International Consumer Electronics Show.

Steve Hassenplug is sitting in a van with seven other people on the way to a Lego convention in Washington, DC, explaining the limitations of Lego's previous robot-building kit, called Mindstorms. "It ...