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About Nxtbot.com

Launched in January of 2006, Nxtbot.com is a blog and Web site dedicated to providing news, reviews, feature stories and interviews concerning the fast-changing world of consumer robotics. Nxtbot.com provides coverage of the entire spectrum of personal and industrial robotics, and encourages site visitors to actively share their own commentary and observations.

Originally sponsored by the LEGO Group, ownership of the Nxtbot.com blog was transferred to Jeff James in November 2007. Nxtbot.com is now a wholly independent robotics blog that is not sponsored, authorized or endorsed by the LEGO Group.

About Jeff James

Email: jeff[@]nxtbot.com Twitter: @nxtbot & @jeffjames3

Jeff James has been an editor, columnist and freelance writer for a variety of computer gaming and technology publications since 1990. His extensive history with the LEGO Company includes helping to launch the first LEGO video games into the U.S. market in 1998 and producing the first BIONICLE game for the Game Boy Advance in 2001. He also contributed to the development of the Junior FIRST LEGO League (JFLL) pilot program, and has been an event organizer, judge and volunteer for the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) robotic events. Prior to leaving the LEGO Group in July 2005, James served as Editorial Director for LEGO Magazine, distributed to more than 1.5 million registered LEGO Club children in five countries.