One of the robot projects you can build with Lego Boost Image: Haley Hamblin/Mashable Boost eases that process in almost every way.

The colorful and inviting Lego Boost app (iOS and Android) starts by showing you a landscape of possible projects.

Boost is an impressive kit. The five on-board building experiences cover a lot of ground, from a robot to a guitar, to quasi Lego “3D printer” that’s more like an assembly line Rube Goldberg ...

LAS VEGAS—Lego announced a new building set here at CES, with a focus on introducing young children to the basics of programming. Lego Boost combines building blocks with sensors, motors, and ...

LAS VEGAS—Lego announced a new building set here at CES, with a focus on introducing young children to the basics of programming. Lego Boost combines building blocks with sensors, motors, and ...

Lego has announced a kit for building and programming robots, designed to encourage a younger generation to learn how to code, at this year's CES.

LEGO did that this week when it announced a new kit called Boost which will allow builders to design and program their own robotic toys out of the popular plastic bricks.