The brand-new Lego Mindstorms EV3 platform is designed to make it easy for adults and children alike to program robots. The new platform comes with an all-new series of sensors and motors.

Lego Mindstorms EV3: Build, program a robot in 20 minutes. ... two touch sensors, ... Lego Mindstorms says an improved color sensor can detect the presence of six colors or the absence of color.

The EV3 set we were given to review contained three different motors (two large and high-torque and one smaller) and three sensors (one touch, one color and light, and one infrared) along with a ...

Mindstorms EV3 further improved that wireless functionality with the addition of wifi as well, but to program its ARM9 processor-powered EV3 brick still required you to sit at a computer or a ...

The Mindstorms EV3 kit also adds an infrared sensor to the mix, giving robots the ability to see and detect various objects. The system runs on Linux-based firmware and sports USB and SD ports.

EVShield Arduino Shield For EV3 Motors and Sensors (video) ... But we soon discovered that making robots and programming them with those bricks was no match to the powerful open source Arduino.