🚀 go-pugleaf

I am a new user on NEWS, so forgive me if I am asking the wrong conference or
if this information is somewhere else

My name is Phillip Middlemiss, an undergraduate at Waikato University finishing
off a computers and maths degree.
The department has got hold of a "Lego construction set" which has all the
motors, sensor pads, and other extras. It is possible to control the moters etc
via a computer.
For a project, I am to build various types of robotic experiments for next
years AI class.  The experiments will be things like the Blocks-world problem.

What I wanted to know was if anyone knows of previous work that has been done
in this area. I cannot find any research information in our library at varsity
at all.
The information I am interested in is:
Languages that can be used to program the set;
any previous robots or similair that have been built;
the types of things that can be doone with the lego construction set.