London - Toy maker Lego unveiled yesterday the world's first thinking child's building brick.
The Danish company launched an intelligent brick equipped with a micro-computer that will enable children to design, build and programme their own robots. Mr Gordon Carpenter, managing director of Lego UK Ltd, said computer-literate children aged 10 and older would be able to grasp the basics of the system in under an hour and would soon be dealing with concepts previously taught only at university. The privately-owned Lego company has been working on the project for over a decade with Dr Seymour Papert, Professor of Learning Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.