The "MIT" team competing for the Google Lunar X-Prize.

Quoted: Next Giant Leap specializes in exploration space craft design and operation.

Logo factory - churns out little car models.

Seems quite complex with the part picking mechanism. Seems like this could be simplified.

I would think one of the harder problems would be developing a "press" out of lego that would be able to apply enough force to push lego bricks onto one another. There are good techniques for cross-bracing lego with plates or Technic beams.

Logo Mindstorms NXT - the 2nd generation Lego robotics kit.

A modified "scuba" robot for hobbyists to hack on.

Met at lunch at BU during our campus visit (daughter Kate going to BU). Coincidentally, he's also from Oklahoma and study with professor Horn at MIT.

Quoted: Lego built a global empire out of little plastic blocks, then conquered the wired world with a robot kit called Mindstorms. So when the time came for an upgrade, they turned to their obsessed fans -- and rewrote the rules of the innovation game.

Great starter robotics kit. There are several 3rd party programing languages that can be used in lieu of Lego's graphical programming system.

Quoted: LEGO Mindstorms: Robotics Invention System 2.0