LEGO to finish the formation of Mindstorms – Engadget

LEGO’s Mindstorms robot series, which has been around for nearly 25 years since its launch in 1998, appears to have come to an end. According to Lego in a statement, due to “strategic adjustments and future planning considerations”, the Mindstorms Robot series will be discontinued later this year, but its digital app platform (Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor App) will continue to support until at the end of 2024. until.

Mindstorms has actually gradually faded from the LEGO product line over the past few years and has been launched since 2013. Mindstorms EV3 Since then, there hasn’t been a direct line of new products. Relatively, LEGO seems to focus more on the education market, such as introducing a more simplified version in 2019. Spike Prime Robot Kit. The only product group currently under the Mindstorm name is the Mindstorms Robot Inventor launched in 2020, but it actually uses Spike Prime’s controllers, sensors and motors and is not a direct product of Mindstorm. Mindstorms Robot Inventor and related components will be discontinued later this year and, without a successor, would be tantamount to announcing the end of the Mindstorms series. However, Lego still retains the Mindstorms brand and name. Although the probability is very small, it does not rule out the possibility of a “resurrection” in the future.

Going forward, LEGO will continue to invest in education and continue to promote its “Build & Code” play experience and related products. Therefore, although the Mindstorms series primarily for adults and robot enthusiasts has disappeared, the Spike series below Lego Education will continue.Boost series mainly for children. It’s just that in the future it will be more difficult for ordinary consumers to purchase Lego’s high-end robotic products.