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.

The EV3 robotic system from LEGO will go on sale sometime this summer for a pretty penny — 35,000 of them, or $350. The MINDSTORMS EV3 will essentially replace the MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 line, which ...

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.

The Mindstorms EV3 kit only comes with printed instructions to build a basic robot, the TRACK3R. However, those instructions have something much more important: the size chart.

For example, the Mindstorms EV3 robot comes with 601 pieces, 3 different motors and multiple sensors. All of these pieces allow the robot to take up to 17 different character designs.

If you aren’t familiar, Mindstorms are Lego’s programmable robotic parts–a brain, motors, and sensors–that interface with their Technic line. Children today don’t perceive robots as ...

Like previous Intelligent Bricks, the EV3 brick can be programmed to perform in various ways, reacting to stimuli from sensors and activating servos to make the robot built with the set move.

The chocolate dispensing, the hand and the spider are all animated using four motors, a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 brick to control them, and a touch sensor.

The LEGO Group is releasing the MINDSTORMS Education EV3 robotics platform to classrooms on Aug. 1, 2013, and a version from the toy division for play at home will be available this fall. The API for ...

The Mindstorms EV3 set also has a new infrared sensor that lets users control and guide the robot using an infrared beacon. The set will include plans for 17 different robots, including a "Spiker ...