Lego is no longer making Mindstorms kits, which are meant to let people make robot out of Lego bricks, pins, beams, motors, gears, and other pieces, and then program using Lego's control hubs. Children and adults have been able to build and program robots with the help of the devices.
The Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit will no longer be sold by the end of the year.
There is an end date on the support for the various apps used to program and control Mindstorms robots, according to the company. That doesn't mean that the robot control units won't be useful. There are open-source tools for writing and uploading code to them that aren't made by Lego, but a lack of official tools could make things more difficult for younger or inexperienced builders.
The point of Lego is that people with Mindstorms kits can program them.
According to the statement posted by Brickset, Lego will have the Mindstorms team working on other parts of the business, though it didn't give any details as to what they'd be doing. Lego didn't reply right away.
When the company retired its Mindstorms EV3 system last year, it pointed customers towards its Lego Education Spike kit rather than the Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit. It is temporarily out of stock on the Mindstorms section of Lego's website. Lego says that the Spike Prime kit is its plan for supporting its idea of building and code.
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