A program named MoonBots bequeath allow children to feign the conditions of Google's $30 million Lunar X Prize—get Boy Scout to the exhibit, snap HD pics, kick ass—but turns up the crotchet (and the cool independent variable) by incorporating Lego.

Now, these inventions—all hopped-up by the Mindstorms AI kit—won't actually see the inhospitable lunar grace up close, like their Lunar X Prize cousins. They bequeath however see artificial terrain, and bequeath be asked to complete like tasks.

One chore, incontestible by Giz customer Tim, involves autonomously navigating the "Lunar surface" without bumping into exhibit rocks, secret aliens, or Apollo work physical object sets. In Tim and his kids' case, the "Exhibit" is a plastered pool: