Deena Shakir, an investor at Lux Capital, struggled to explain to her three young kids what exactly her job ... In the book, Leena Mo builds a robot to plow snow. Her neighbors all beg her to ...

“While Mi-Mo can be enjoyable for kids ... the robot,” Ishikawa explained. Software engineers will likely be an important market for the Mi-Mo as they are usually also interested in tinkering ...

In fact, Lego Education even offers an expansion pack ($99.95) of 603 additional components that are designed to prepare kids for robotics competitions, like the First Lego League and World Robot ...