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.

We got a look at the new Mindstorms NXT robotics kits from Lego. And a new sensor for the 2.0 version can, amazingly, detect the difference between colors. Cool.

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.

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.

Although I received my Lego Mindstorms NXT kit in the mail early last week, it wasn’t until yesterday that I really had a chance to dig in, spending a whole day working through the included ...

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 ...

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.

The third evolution of Lego robotics, Lego Mindstorms EV3, is announced with specially developed plans for classroom use.