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The iconic toy company now sources more than half its brick materials from recycled or renewable sources, jumping from 33% to 52% in just one year. It's one of the biggest shifts toward sustainable plastic in the toy industry.
A shuttered steel mill along Pittsburgh's Monongahela River just got a high-tech second life as Carnegie Mellon University's new Robotics Innovation Center. The 150,000-square-foot facility is already training robots to harvest crops, build with Legos, and do backflips.
The LEGO Group just doubled down on fighting climate change, adding $8 million to its carbon removal program and bringing total investment to over $54 million. The toy maker is testing cutting-edge technologies while supporting forests and communities from Mexico to the ocean floor.
Two third graders who love makeup built a Lego robot that applies eyeshadow, taking first place at a regional innovation competition. Their invention, along with creations like a stray pet tracking app and a chicken waste remover, will compete at Georgia Tech in March.
Ford is promising an affordable electric truck starting at $30,000 next year, using 3D-printed modular parts and Formula 1 engineering tricks to compete with Chinese automakers. After a $19.5 billion loss and ending production of the Lightning, the company is betting on a revolutionary manufacturing approach to make electric vehicles profitable.
A lifelong Peanuts fan designed the first official Lego Snoopy set, and it's everything fans hoped for. The 964-piece doghouse comes complete with Woodstock, marshmallows, and 75 years of nostalgia.
After a devastating knee injury ended his athletic season, 18-year-old Devin Brenner found healing through Lego sets during his 10-month recovery. Now he's giving custom Lego kits to young patients facing their own hospital journeys.
While children worldwide scroll through screens, Denmark is doubling down on imagination with forest kindergartens, maker workshops, and iconic attractions like Lego House. The country is now restricting social media access for kids, proving play isn't just nostalgic—it's essential.
Engineers have created programmable building blocks that can change their flexibility instantly, like how muscles tense and relax. The breakthrough could lead to robots that adapt inside the human body or navigate tight spaces.
A German YouTuber built a fully functional Lego clock that measures time from single seconds all the way up to billions of years. The weight-driven mechanical marvel runs on solar power and showcases mind-bending cosmic timescales through simple plastic bricks.
David Aguilar built his first functional prosthetic arm entirely from LEGO bricks when he was just 9 years old. Now the inventor, known as "Hand Solo," creates affordable prosthetics for people who can't afford traditional ones.
A boy born without a right forearm built his first functional prosthetic arm out of LEGO bricks when he was just 9 years old. Today, David Aguilar creates affordable prosthetics for people who can't afford traditional ones.
On January 28, 1958, a Danish carpenter's son filed a patent for interlocking plastic bricks that would become the world's largest toy company. LEGO's simple design has remained virtually unchanged for nearly seven decades, with bricks from 1958 still clicking perfectly into pieces made today.
A man who broke three Guinness World Records walking barefoot on Legos turned his painful childhood memories into a charity that's delivered 20,000 building sets to 62 children's hospitals. Russell Cassevah cashed out his retirement to make sick kids smile.
LEGO Education just released four new STEM sets designed to turn kids into independent scientists through hands-on play. The sets tackle real-world challenges in space, animals, and nature while helping parents bridge the curiosity gap. #
LEGO Education is bringing hands-on science learning home for the first time with four new STEM kits that help kids discover answers to their biggest questions. The move comes as research shows 75% of parents feel unprepared to answer their children's science questions.
LEGO Education just released four new science kits designed to turn living rooms into launch pads and Arctic camps. The sets combine hands-on experiments with beloved building bricks to make STEM learning feel like pure play.
Scientists at York University discovered that watching autistic adults build with Lego reveals unique movement patterns that could help identify autism much earlier in life. The simple building task uncovered distinctive motor signatures that appear long before the communication skills doctors currently use for diagnosis.