LEGO announced the MINDSTORMS NXT, a new robotics system that redefines the consumer robotics category the company created in 1998. Smarter, stronger and more intuitive than ever, LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT is a robotics toolset that provides endless opportunities for armchair inventors, robotics fanatics, and LEGO builders ages 10 and older to build and program robots that do what they want. The heart of the new system is the NXT brick, an autonomous 32-bit LEGO microprocessor that can be programmed using a PC, or for the first time in the retail offering, a Mac. After building their robots, users create a program within easy-to-use yet feature-rich software, powered by LabVIEW from National Instruments. New technologies and expanded sensor capabilities add a level of sophistication to excite and challenge more experienced robot creators. LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT will be available in August 2006, but will be demonstrated in the Robotics TechZone through Sunday, January 8 during the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show.