Last year, a Change.org petition urged the toy company to “[t]hink outside the brick box.” “Oh Lego, where are your basket balling wheelsters? Baseball playing Duplo folk with hearing aids?

Fortunately, Lego just put its popular Creative Brick Box on sale for almost half off, which is its lowest price ever. The box has almost 500 pieces of building blocks and other pieces to build ...

The new system not only designs Lego models that match text descriptions (prompts) but also ensures they can be built brick by brick in the real world, either by hand or with robotic assistance.