On January 6, Beijing time, toy giant LEGO Group officially unveiled the “LEGO SMART Play” intelligent platform at the 2026 CES Consumer Electronics Show. This is the company's most significant evolution of the LEGO brick system since the introduction of LEGO minifigures in 1978. The “smart building block” looks like a standard 2'4 LEGO brick, but the core contains a 4.1-mm custom chip smaller than the bump, which contains an accelerometer, gyroscope, light sensor, miniature speaker, and LED light array — it's no exaggeration to say it's an “agent in the building block world.” The best part is that if you put it together in the model, it can sense flipping, shaking, and position changes, and automatically play the corresponding sound effects and lights without the need for a screen, app, or internet connection at all. What's even cooler is that these smart blocks can still “talk” between each other. LEGO has developed a Bluetooth grid network called BrickNet, which uses the patented technology “Neighbor Location Measurement” to allow the blocks to sense each other's distance and direction.

On January 6, Beijing time, toy giant LEGO Group officially unveiled the “LEGO SMART Play” intelligent platform at the 2026 CES Consumer Electronics Show. This is the company's most significant evolution of the LEGO brick system since the introduction of LEGO minifigures in 1978. The “smart building block” looks like a standard 2'4 LEGO brick, but the core contains a 4.1-mm custom chip smaller than the bump, which contains an accelerometer, gyroscope, light sensor, miniature speaker, and LED light array — it's no exaggeration to say it's an “agent in the building block world.” The best part is that if you put it together in the model, it can sense flipping, shaking, and position changes, and automatically play the corresponding sound effects and lights without the need for a screen, app, or internet connection at all. What's even cooler is that these smart blocks can still “talk” between each other. LEGO has developed a Bluetooth grid network called BrickNet, which uses the patented technology “Neighbor Location Measurement” to allow the blocks to sense each other's distance and direction.