Early this morning the LEGO Group announced that it had selected 100 finalists — out of an applicant pool of more than 9600 people — for the Mindstorms Developer Program (MDP). As part of the community-based development process that LEGO announced a few months ago (and was mentioned in a recent WIRED cover story) these lucky [...]

During our neon-soaked sojourn through the wilds of CES we did manage to grab some video footage of the Mindstorms NXT in action. These files have been sitting in the dusty corner of a digital camera for the last few months, but I thought that these may be of interest. Apologies for the unusual angles and [...]

  In this final look at the Mindstorms NXT unveiling at CES we’ll take a gander at a few of the models that were on display at the show, as well as offer up a few samples of the prototype product packaging. There were a few new NXT-created gadgets on hand, including a robotic scorpion [...]

In this second installment of our three part CES report on the Mindstorms NXT we’ll take a brief look at the new Mindstorms programming software. The original LEGO Mindstorms product shipped with one of two different programming environments, depending on how it was purchased. The original retail product shipped with RCX code, a visual programming [...]

The recently announced Mindstorms NXT was on display in the Robotics TechZone at CES, surrounded by other robotics exhibits. A number of NXT sample robots were being demonstrated, but in this installment we’ll focus on some of the key features of the new NXT intelligent brick, which replaces the yellow RCX brick used in earlier [...]