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.

A team of Hilo keiki will pit their Lego robot against 49 others in Honolulu today at the FIRST Lego League State Tournament. Seven Hilo students make up the Lava Bots, the only East Hawaii FIRST Lego ...

MILWAUKEE -- As kids, many of us probably built simple things while playing with Legos. A nostalgic toy for many, the blocks are cranked up a few notches and used as a teaching tool for pre-teens, who ...

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 ...

JOSEPH — Legos are just a set of snap-together toy building blocks that kids enjoy, right? Well, now they’re being turned into something to build a technological future for youngsters. That was ...

NANTICOKE — Youngsters got the opportunity to calculate turn arcs, gauge traction, program sensors and — oh, seriously, who cares? Time for Sumo-bot death match! “We want to fight someone!” Murphy ...

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 ...

Xiaomi is producing a plastic toy robot that you can assemble into different forms, and control with an app. Called the Toy Block, the coding toy appears to rely on Lego-like pieces. The kit will come ...

The Appalachian region, often celebrated for its rich history and stunning landscapes, is now gaining recognition for a different reason: ...

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 ...