Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12527 in Toys & Games
• Brand: LEGO UK Limited
• Released on: 2006-09-11

Manufacturer's Description
Create the smartest, strongest and most advanced LEGO robot ever, in as little as 30 minutes! The new NXT Intelligent Brick, your robot's brain, features a powerful 32-bit microprocessor and more memory, plus support for USB 2.0, Bluetooth and more!

A streamlined, highly versatile palette of LEGO TECHNIC elements combines with state-of-the-art ultrasonic, sound, light and touch sensors in the next generation of intuitive robotics. With the included Quick-Start guide, easy-to-use software and step-by-step building instructions, beginners and experts alike can create humanoid, vehicle and animal robots that obey every command!

Improved light sensors can detect different colours and intensities, while the new sound sensor enables robots to respond to sound patterns and tones. Robots can really feel with improved touch sensors, while ultrasonic eyes measure distance and movement.

The drag-and-drop programming software is now available for both PC and Macintosh platforms. With Bluetooth support, you can even command your robot from your mobile phone!

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Includes:

Customer Reviews

Just What You Always Wanted From A Robot
I bought this for my son for his 10th birthday, having looked at other robotics kits and been concerned that they were a "one model only" purchase. I thought the Lego package would give good variation and the ability to easily make lots of different designs. We have not been disappointed. For example, in the last week he has made 3 different robots, programmed them, and modified them to do different tasks.

The set itself was the usual Lego technic style bricks, which he was familiar with to easily build the starter models. The "intelligent brick" software loaded with no problems, and provided you do the early exercises to learn how to program it, is pretty straightforward. But try to curb your enthusiasm to leap ahead - in the early days you have to learn the different graphics, otherwise it is easy to get the wrong program element. After a few programmes, you understand them much more readily.

We had our first robot going within an hour, and then did a couple of days doing the next sequences. I had a couple of days away and when I came back he was crazy to show me how he had done the next model - and got it to do what it should.

Do you need programming knowledge to use it - No. Do you need some time to help get it organised - yes, but pretty soon they'll be off and flying. I would say around 10 is the minimum age. Maximum age.....well more than me!

Compared to when I did (very basic) computer programming at school, this has the major attraction that you can do something with a real robot.

It's great education, and I was surprised that it has caused my son to spend less time on the computer. He now has a pencil and paper out drawing mechanisms and designing his next robot, assault course, or whatever. The one drawback is when it gets to bed-time, and there's just one more thing that needs to be done.....

In his words "It's the best robot kit, ever".

Educational and fun, limited only by your own imagination
Mindstorms began with RCX pairing the creativity and simplicity of Lego with with programmable interactive robotics - NXT takes this great idea forward to near perfection.

Fun and educational for (older) children and adults alike. It comes with a decent amount of Lego to get you started including three servo motors and four sensors with a pretty robust and easy visual programming environment.

It has good support in the wider community such as additional sensors (e.g. compass, colour, gyro etc) and programming languages (C, Java amongst others). Also as it is standard Lego, any spare Technic sets can be put to good use supplementing the NXT kit.

The only thing I would have liked is an included storage box to keep all the tiny Lego bits etc, it comes in a single big cardboard box without any dividers.

Overall very much recommended.

Product description does not do it justice!
We're delighted with the NXT kit; the product description on Amazon doesn't really do justice to how much potential it has. For example, there is functionality such as being able to communicate with other NXT robots, store data files in flash memory, etc.