The LEGO Mindstorms toy line features more robotic and mechanical versions of your favorite LEGO figures, and now they’re evolving in a pretty significant way thanks to a new partnership between LEGO and Amazon’s Alexa.
LEGO announced the “LEGO Mindstorms Voice Challenge: Powered by Alexa” on Tuesday. The contest challenges participants to use the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit to connect Alexa to the LEGO Mindstorms’ EV3 software. That in turn will allow the Mindstorm LEGO-bots to use voice commands to perform the basic animations that their software already allows them to perform. Imagine a one-foot-tall battle robot shooting a tiny toy rocket when its owner tells Alexa to “fire cannon.”
Source: IGN.com Win ,000 in this Voice-Controlled LEGO Robot Design Contest