The Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor Kit is more than
twice as expensive as the Lego Boost Creative Toolbox,
which, on its surface, looks like a similar Lego-based
robotics kit. But the Lego Boost is far less powerful: It
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language and supports neither Scratch nor Python,
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distance sensor.
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STEM students looking to learn the basics of robotics
and programming, it isn’t nearly as open-ended as a
Mindstorms kit.
The Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor Kit will be
available this fall for $359.99.
The Robot
Inventor kit
lets kids
(adults too)
build five
different
robot models
out of 949
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