Toy manufacturer Lego plans to stop producing Mindstorms kits at the end of the year.

Lego, a toy business established in Denmark, has disclosed its intention to cease production of Mindstorms, a line of constructible instructional robot kits.

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The Lego Mindstorms kits were first made available to the public in September of 1998.

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The control hubs allowed for the robots to be programmed using a variety of different methods.

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2013 was the year that saw the most recent upgrade to the basic Mindstorms product line.

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