The LEGO story began in 1932 in Billund, Denmark. Ole Kirk Kristiansen, a skilled carpenter, started a small business in a ...

Fauna Robotics unveils Sprout: a safe, character-driven robot designed to live, work, and play alongside humans in everyday ...

Matthew Shifrin is on a mission to make Legos accessible for blind people through his non-profit Bricks for the Blind.

Lego has unveiled SMART bricks, tags and mini figures which will bring "creations to life." They're just like regular Lego bricks except for a chip inside which respond to how they're played with, ...

Construction waste is finding new life in the form of eco-friendly building blocks used for low-cost RDP housing. This innovation is part of the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation’s ...

LEGO has subtly rebranded itself over the past decade. It is not only for children; it is also for adult hobbyists who enjoy the intricacy of multi-thousand piece sets and have the disposable income ...

Founded by engineers from Perth, Australia, Mobile Crisis Construction is a nonprofit creating machines that turn debris – cement, glass, and local raw materials — into interlocking blocks, just like ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Thursday donated 500 brick-making machines and nine motorcycles to South Sudan’s Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management to aid ...

A Chinese research team has developed a "lunar brick-making machine" that can produce bricks from moon soil, bringing the sci-fi vision of "building houses on the moon with local materials" closer to ...

This milestone was marked on 11 April 2025 by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which partnered with Use-It Waste Beneficiation NPC and Key Bricks to demonstrate the prototype ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...

Back in 2018, Elon Musk had a bold idea. He wanted to take the dirt dug up by his The Boring Company while creating tunnels and turn it into interlocking bricks that could be used to build sculptures, ...