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.

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

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.

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 just announced their Mindstorm NXT which is (gulp) "smarter, stronger, and more intuitive than ever." The new toolset features a wide range of sensors allowing your bot to now sense and react ...

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.

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 ...

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.

After what seems like a lifetime of anticipation, Lego has finally launched its Mindstorms NXT robot kit. We can barely type thanks to fingers worn raw from fiddling with the tiny pieces, but we can ...

After what seems like a lifetime of anticipation, Lego has finally launched its Mindstorms NXT robot kit – and once again it’s hit the mark. Intelligent brick what?The core of the system is the ...