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.

Which LEGO robot kit is best? LEGO has been making childhood toys for more than 50 years and now even offer kits that allow your child to build a robot. These sets encourage young kids to explore and ...

Makeblocks, a company known for kid-friendly robotics and DIY hovercraft-drones, is launching a new gadget-building platform called Neuron. It's like Lego meets Littlebits-- you get over 30 blocks ...

Lego toys have brought a whole new level of fun and entertainment in our lives with the introduction of Lego Boost. Since Lego was invented a century ago by the Danish Ole Kirk Christiansen, Lego has ...

As a Lego robot car ran a route map on the competition table, every member of Team Steam Rollers held their breath. Ten seconds later, the car went off the track. Its controllers, Gus Walston and ...

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 ...

A new type of hydrogel material could soon make assembling complex microfluidic or soft robotic devices as simple as putting together a LEGO set. Using a new type of dual polymer material capable of ...

During the coronavirus lockdown, children around the world settled on killing time on their devices playing games, watching videos, or connecting with friends and families on social media. And to ...

If you've ever wished your childhood Lego creations could come to life, your dreams are now closer to reality. Lego has just unveiled a subbrand called Boost that promises to do just that. The base ...

While many of us spent our youth looking at Lego blocks as ways to build questionably designed little houses or as fascinating objects to stuff into our noses, they’re also, it turns out, capable of ...

A robot made of Lego can quickly perform an important step for creating machines made of DNA. “This started as a final project in an undergraduate lab course,” says Rizal Hariadi at Arizona State ...

When Geoff Gray got a phone call at work from Lego recently, the longtime fan of the iconic plastic bricks did a little dance around his cubicle. Gray is one of 100 people Lego chose on Friday to be ...