It lets you design and build a wide variety of robots. Enthusiasts, many of them adults, have used it to build robots that sort Lego bricks by color, dispense soft drinks, or climb stairs.

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.

Raspberry Pi + Lego = robot Raspberry Pi add-on will help you build Lego Mindstorm robots $45 BrickPi connects Pi to motors, sensors, and Lego bricks.

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

Lego has refined and polished the design of its instruction manuals over the years, but as easy as they are for humans to follow, machines are only just learning how to interpret the step-by-step ...