The third generation of Lego's best-selling programmable robotics platform is here, and features more sensors, motors, and flexibility than ever. Plus mobile apps.

Today at the SXSWedu Conference in Austin, Lego Education demonstrated a new EV3 programming app for use with its Mindstorms Education EV3 platform. The combination of a physical EV3 robot and the app ...

Lego’s products are the antithesis of those barriers. And so long as Mindstorms graduates shape the 3D printing industry, I expect Lego will be warmly rewarded.

The Lego WeDo system also has available software to program the robots, an activity pack to guide learning and an excellent guide for teachers to facilitate teaching.

This year at CES, Lego is bridging the gap with Boost, a basic robotics- and programming-oriented kit that’s supposed to be more playful than didactic.

The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 system makes it easy for anyone to build and control robots. LEGO's block-based, colorful EV3 programming language is fine for first-timers, but it has more powerful features ...