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Smart Robotics with LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor
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Smart Robotics with LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor

by Aaron Maurer
May 2021
Intermediate to advanced
438 pages
11h 13m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1: History of Mindstorms

This chapter is going to focus on a very brief and quick history of the LEGO Mindstorms timeline. This chapter serves as information and context for the new Mindstorms Robot Inventor Kit 51515. It will provide a backdrop of how we have arrived at this new kit.

It is hard to believe that LEGO has been in the robotics environment for over 20 years. Today the educational and consumer world is saturated with robots. We see them everywhere, from toys to day-to-day life products, and all over the industrial and economic world.

Back in 1998, LEGO released Lego Mindstorms: The Robotics Invention System. There were some other products created by LEGO prior to this kit, but for all intents and purposes, we are going to ...

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