These Lego® Compatible educational robots are clean, safe, reusable, expandable and robust, providing students across grade levels, from ages 5 and up, with a range of combinations and possibilities. Along its faces are LEGO® compatible plates that allow Edison robots to be scaled up into sophisticated creations, combined and doubled up for a more complicated system. Each Edison robot features a host of sensors and can be programmed using a growing number of free software applications: EdBlocks - A fully graphical robot programming language that is super easy to use and ideal for students ages 8-12 years old EdWare - A Hybrid graphical robot programming software (similar to Scratch), combines drag-and-drop graphical icons with increased functionality from text-bases entry, making programming fun and easy to learn. EdPy - The easy-to-learn, high readability and very popular Phython programming language that makes text-based programming fun and easy. 10 free educational robotic lesson plans. Expansion kit includes: 115 blocks, pegs, gears and other parts all created to interlock together and onto the Edison robot.