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The Force is strong with these Lego droids. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The best robot kit for kids is getting a major ...

Lego's latest educational kits, dubbed Boost, combine moving parts and computer programming for children as young as 7. WSJ's Geoffrey A. Fowler checked it out before its January debut at CES 2017 in ...

There's a new STEM option in town. The Robot Inventor kit can be turned into five robots, which can play basketball, walk, and shoot darts at intruders. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

AHWATUKEE, AZ — Brenda Hernandez, an engineer in Ahwatukee, has successfully launched a LEGO robotics team to inspire young minds in STEM. After discovering a lack of STEM programs in her area, ...

All Lego Boost kits have the power to teach kids (and kids at heart) how to bring machines to life with coding, but the latest one has an edge over previous sets. The new Star Wars Boost kit has the ...

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 ...