Imagine: Capturing the UPC code of a food and receiving a text back if the food product is safe to eat based on your personal food allergies. A new service aims to provide a database to do just that.
MILWAUKEE -- As kids, many of us probably built simple things while playing with Legos. A nostalgic toy for many, the blocks are cranked up a few notches and used as a teaching tool for pre-teens, who ...
A team of Hilo keiki will pit their Lego robot against 49 others in Honolulu today at the FIRST Lego League State Tournament. Seven Hilo students make up the Lava Bots, the only East Hawaii FIRST Lego ...
NANTICOKE — Youngsters got the opportunity to calculate turn arcs, gauge traction, program sensors and — oh, seriously, who cares? Time for Sumo-bot death match! “We want to fight someone!” Murphy ...
JOSEPH — Legos are just a set of snap-together toy building blocks that kids enjoy, right? Well, now they’re being turned into something to build a technological future for youngsters. That was ...
LAS VEGAS -- Vernie considers me with his icy blue yes, an orange eyebrow slightly cocked. Then, suddenly, he races forward and asks me my name. I shout it into the nearby tablet and we commence ...
Xiaomi is producing a plastic toy robot that you can assemble into different forms, and control with an app. Called the Toy Block, the coding toy appears to rely on Lego-like pieces. The kit will come ...
When Geoff Gray got a phone call at work from Lego recently, the longtime fan of the iconic plastic bricks did a little dance around his cubicle. Gray is one of 100 people Lego chose on Friday to be ...
It’s encouraging to see Lego use technology to innovate on its standard bricks, but it should also make use of the opportunity to teach children robotics, says Parmy Olson for Bloomberg Opinion.
The internet has given us plenty of cool robotics projects, but we don’t think we’ve seen one zipline before. At least not until now. This cool little ziplining robot is courtesy of the folks over at ...
A robot made of Lego can quickly perform an important step for creating machines made of DNA. “This started as a final project in an undergraduate lab course,” says Rizal Hariadi at Arizona State ...
REDMOND, Wash.--Steve Hassenplug must not sleep very much. The Lafayette, Ind., software engineer is a member of the Lego Mindstorms NXT developer program, and even among the hard-core Lego fanatics ...