Answers.Body: <p>Brickset identifies JØRN THOMSEN as the designer of the 31313 set:</p>
  <p><a href="https://brickset.com/sets/31313-1/Mindstorms-EV3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://brickset.com/sets/31313-1/Mindstorms-EV3</a></p>
  <p>Although I'm also inclined to believe that probably a group of people came up with the various initial robots.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I think that actually the five main robots were made by a <em>group of people</em>.</p>
  <p>On <a href="https://www.lego.com/en-gb/themes/mindstorms/buildarobot" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a> page, it tells who designed the fan robots, but it doesn't say so for the 5 main robots, which include EV3RSTORM.</p>
  <p>To quote from <a href="http://hackeducation.com/2015/04/10/mindstorms#" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this site</a>:</p>
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  <p>Like the early robot turtles, these programmable Lego constructions were still tethered to a computer with wires. So Seymour Papert wondered if it would be possible to create a Lego brick that could serve as the computer – a fully programmable brick.</p>
  <p>A working prototype was built by the Media Lab in 1987, but it wasn’t until a decade later that Lego trademarked Mindstorms – a nod to Papert’s 1980 book Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas – and brought the programmable brick to market.</p>
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  <p>It says it was made by a group called Media Lab. It doesn't mention any specific names though, so once again it's likely a group of people... who probably designed <em>all</em> of the EV3, including the brick itself and all 5 main models.</p>
  <p><sup>oh I forgot, Papert was one of the people in the media lab apparently</sup></p>
  
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Answers.Text: A group of 12 people: the [LMEP](http://botbench.com/blog/2013/01/07/lego-mindstorms-ev3-announced/), or [12 monkeys](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-lego-is-constructing-the-next-generation-of-engineers-37671528/)...
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Body: <p>I wonder, who designed EV3RSTORM? I have searched on Google but no results.</p>
  
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Title: Who designed EV3RSTORM?
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ThreadText: # Who designed EV3RSTORM?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-01-03)
  
  I wonder, who designed EV3RSTORM? I have searched on Google but no results.
  
  **Tags:** ev3, mindstorms, history
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2021-01-03. Score: 2
  
  Brickset identifies JØRN THOMSEN as the designer of the 31313 set:
  
  <https://brickset.com/sets/31313-1/Mindstorms-EV3>
  
  Although I'm also inclined to believe that probably a group of people came up with the various initial robots.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2021-01-03. Score: 0
  
  I think that actually the five main robots were made by a *group of people*.
  
  On [this](https://www.lego.com/en-gb/themes/mindstorms/buildarobot) page, it tells who designed the fan robots, but it doesn't say so for the 5 main robots, which include EV3RSTORM.
  
  To quote from [this site](http://hackeducation.com/2015/04/10/mindstorms#):
  
  > Like the early robot turtles, these programmable Lego constructions were still tethered to a computer with wires. So Seymour Papert wondered if it would be possible to create a Lego brick that could serve as the computer – a fully programmable brick.
  >
  > A working prototype was built by the Media Lab in 1987, but it wasn’t until a decade later that Lego trademarked Mindstorms – a nod to Papert’s 1980 book Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas – and brought the programmable brick to market.
  
  It says it was made by a group called Media Lab. It doesn't mention any specific names though, so once again it's likely a group of people... who probably designed *all* of the EV3, including the brick itself and all 5 main models.
  
  oh I forgot, Papert was one of the people in the media lab apparently
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: A group of 12 people: the [LMEP](http://botbench.com/blog/2013/01/07/lego-mindstorms-ev3-announced/), or [12 monkeys](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-lego-is-constructing-the-next-generation-of-engineers-37671528/)...  
  
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