As reported by Brick Fanatics and Brickset, Lego is discontinuing the Mindstorms sets, which allowed you to create
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These devices have been on the market since 1998.And while the company hasn't completely abandoned the idea of educational robotics kits, the sources said it will stop selling the Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit by the end of this year.
Applications used to program and control Mindstorms robots on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Fire OS, the company willsupport at least until the "end of 2024".
Luckily, there are open source tools for writing and uploading code to the company's robots that aren't made by Lego itself.
Lego will have the Mindstorms team work on other parts of the business, according to a statement posted on the Brickset website, although it did not specify what they would be doing.