1998-2022. The LEGO Mindstorms will soon be gone, putting an end to a friendly collaboration.
The firm decided to concentrate its resources elsewhere, without abandoning education.
24 years of brick-breaking robotics
Since only the Robot Inventor product has been available (for the moment) since 2020 on the LEGO site in the Mindstorms range, the information revealed today by the group is ultimately not very surprising: the latter will bow out at the end of the year. The same goes for the optional elements linked to it. The support for the mobile application will be stopped in 2 years.
Launched in 1998 following a partnership between LEGO and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Mindstorms offered youngsters the opportunity to discover robotics through LEGO kits. Initially, the solution simply relied on LEGO Technics and a processing unit, before evolving over the years and kits. The latest to date thus proposes to create five models of robots to be assembled and programmed via the dedicated application.
LEGO is not giving up on educational kits
In a statement about the decision, LEGO said: ” Now that we have multiple priorities in LEGO Education and other Build & Code experiences, we have decided to focus our resources and future plans by redirecting our Mindstorms Robot Inventor team and their expertise to other areas of the business. »
LEGO refers here in particular to products such as Boost or Spike. The former generally looks like a simplified version of Robot Inventor, while the latter offers STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) learning in a playful way.
The Mindstorms brand will visibly be retained, and LEGO announces ” assess » his future plans with LEGO Education. Whatever the company’s exact plans are around education and robotics, so there’s not much time left to possibly gift yourself the Robot Inventor kit before it’s gone.
Source : Engadget
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