Imagine: Capturing the UPC code of a food and receiving a text back if the food product is safe to eat based on your personal food allergies. A new service aims to provide a database to do just that.

On first glance, FIRST may seem like it’s all about robotics. In reality, it’s way more than just robotics. There are multiple leagues within FIRST, starting with First Lego League, Jr., and working ...

The Internet has brought a lot of advantage to life, not the least of which is access to really cheap electronic parts. [KarelK166] was buying cheap geared motors for projects, but they didn’t easily ...

Addison Ritner meticulously inserted Lego bricks into the base of what would become a robot. Sometimes the bricks fit, other times it required her to disassemble a few pieces before she made progress.

Toys that teach kids to code are as hot in 2017 as Cabbage Patch Kids were in 1983, and for good reason. For today's generation of children, learning how to program is even more important than ...

It’s encouraging to see Lego use technology to innovate on its standard bricks, but it should also make use of the ...

Fifteen schools, over a hundred kids, and thousands of LEGO blocks. The first lego league qualifying tournament at the Bentson Bunker Fieldhouse was a lot of fun for kids and adults, but it's also a ...

The internet has given us plenty of cool robotics projects, but we don’t think we’ve seen one zipline before. At least not until now. This cool little ziplining robot is courtesy of the folks over at ...

For some kids, there's not thing cooler than seeing robots and machines moving on their own. Actually, some might find it even cooler to be the ones to build those robots and tell them what do. LEGO's ...

Revealed today was the new JIMU Robot BuilderBots Series: Overdrive Kit. It's a box of blocks and power pieces that exist to introduce kids to STEM learning. In the box is "over 400 parts" that can ...

LAS VEGAS -- Vernie considers me with his icy blue yes, an orange eyebrow slightly cocked. Then, suddenly, he races forward and asks me my name. I shout it into the nearby tablet and we commence ...

The LEGO pieces are part of the robot the team entered in the FIRST Lego League Tournament, a robotics competition designed for students ages 9 to 14. This was the first time the school entered a team ...