Lego to discontinue Mindstorms kits by end of the year: Report

Toy company Lego has announced its plan to discontinue its buildable educational robot kits, Mindstorms, at the end of the year, Lego fan sites like Brick Fanatics and Brickset reported.

Lego Mindstorms kits first debuted in September 1998. The kit allows users to build robots out of Lego bricks, gears, and mechanical components such as pins, beams, and motors. The robots could be programmed using the control hubs. Mindstorms kits were among the first toys to actively promote STEM learning which later became popular in the toy industry. Over the years, Mindstorms sets and components have been used to build astonishingly capable creations, Gizmodo reported. The core Mindstorms product line received its last update in 2013, which was the EV3 set.

Even though Lego will discontinue the Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit, it is not entirely moving away from the concept of educational robotics kits.