Lego has been experimenting with robots since the mid-80s, leading up to the use of the Mindstorms brand to teach kids not only how to construct their own robots but how to program them as well.

On Tuesday, Lego Education introduced SPIKE Prime, a new robotics kit to teach middle school students how to code. It's up for preorder now for about $330, and shipping in August.

Lego’s free Mindstorms Robot Inventor app contains building and coding instructions for each of these robots. It supports code using aaa drag-and-drop programming language based on Scratch as ...

Learn to code with this Lego Robot Inventor kit, now $287.99 in Lego's Black Friday sale. But with retirement on the way you'll have to grab it before it's gone.

Teaching code — Robot Inventor supports programming the robots using both the Scratch drag-and-drop language as well as Python. The idea is that children will learn the fundamentals of computer ...

As cool as all these may sound, a basic WeDo 2.0 set does cost $159.95. For now it seems to be available only from LEGO Education's online store. The WeDo app, however, is completely free to take ...

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The LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor is aimed at children aged 10 and above but older MINDSTORMS fans might also get a kick from the new set. Robot Inventor is set to launch sometime in Autumn and ...