When Max Shepherd was about 10, he saw a robot arm on Lego’s mindstorms.com. It inspired him to build his own. “I built a bunch of moderately decent arms (I was in middle school, come on ...

Here’s our soft robot hand in action: This article was originally published in the May 2015 issue of Popular Science, under the title “Wave Hello To A Soft Robot Hand.” ...

This remarkably articulate robot hand was supposedly built by Lego enthusiast ‘Barman’ using two Mindstorms NXT control units, six motors, and some utterly brilliant engineering. But surely it ...

Teaching Robots to Build With Legos Current Northwestern Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) student Senthil Palanisamy talks about the challenges he faced and what others can learn from his Embedded ...

If you ever needed an excuse to make a Lego Mindstorm NXT robot, here's some inspiration to create one.

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 ...

Robots are supposed to make our lives easier. But in order to lend us a hand, robots will need some pretty impressive hands themselves. Here are six recent designs that make our robot-staffed ...

Rocket science, with Lego DAVID VOGT'S son loves Lego. As they played together one day, the robotics professor had an idea: could he teach a robot to put the blocks together? "We thought it would ...