The brand-new Lego Mindstorms EV3 platform is designed to make it easy for adults and children alike to program robots. The new platform comes with an all-new series of sensors and motors.

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.

Review: Lego Mindstorms EV3 means giant robots, powerful computers My inner 9-year-old is blown away, but my outer 35-year-old balks at the $349 price.

The third evolution of Lego robotics, Lego Mindstorms EV3, is announced with specially developed plans for classroom use.

Lego Mindstorms have been around for years. The Mindstorms EV3 robotics kit remains a staple of many learning centers and robotics classrooms.

Lego is back with another generation of MindStorms, the company's consumer robotics line aimed at introducing application programming to a younger generation. Kids these days grow up with so much ...

They include four motors (EV3 has three), a color and light sensor, a distance sensor, the new Intelligent Hub, and more than 900 additional Lego Technic and System pieces for building the five ...

The new EV3 was built to be hacked. The computing brick in Lego Mindstorms is the key piece that controls all the other components, and in the new EV3, the brick uses a Linux base, which opens up ...