The Mindstorms NXT programming "brick," thankfully, remains a model of simplicity. This version includes numbers on the motor ports and "A," "B," "C," and "D" labels for the sensor ports.

This new Mindstorms line, now backwards-compatible with the NXT series, touted several expected enhancements to its sensor load and processing might.

The original Mindstorms systems, cool as they may have been at the time, look like children's toys from an 8-bit world. They featured the familiar Lego look and had limited sensor options.

Hacking the NXT With LEGO's Blessing Most people who play with the LEGO Mindstorm NXT, especially the younger ones, never find a reason to go beyond the stock programming environment.

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.

As with all Lego we've ever tested here at Pocket-lint, the NXT Mindstorm set is incredibly well put together and the step by step instructions to get you going are simple and easy to understand.

LEGO will release the Mindstorms NXT 2.0 in August of 2009. In comparing the stats to the older 8527 Mindstorm NXT it doesn’t appear to be a major upgrade. They have replaced the noise sensor ...

Lego’s Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit is designed to let kids build and design robots. The set has 949 pieces, including a color sensor, distance sensor, four motors, and Lego’s Bluetooth ...

The LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robotics kit is the newest, best, and most accessible way to teach your kids or yourself how to build and program robots.

Lego released the first version of Mindstorms in 1998, and the second iteration, Mindstorms NXT, almost exactly six years ago at that year's edition of the International Consumer Electronics Show.