We try building our first Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot, and make some decent headway.

I am a LEGO roboticist. A few weeks ago, we got the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit in the lab, and I've been spending my time honing my craft, building increasingly complicated robots, and programming ...

The result are Lego sets you can build, remotely control and program to do whatever you can think up. The new EV3 set, released this week, is the epitome of this duality.

Lego Mindstorms says the robots' modular designs can enable a youngster to build and program a robot in as little as 20 minutes.

LEGO knows a thing or two about appealing to engineering-minded youngsters. To celebrate the 15th anniversary of Mindstorms, their line of robot-building kits, they have announced a new robotic ...