I thought this was interesting. Lego's new Mindstorm kits are now running on Linux.
Apologies in advance as the presentation of the video may not be to everyone's taste (but I don't mind Darren). From CES 2013.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAQ3g-iW-Ow
other links:
http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/688254-hackable-lego-robot-runs-linux/
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/08/0149241/lego-announces-gnulinux-powered-mindstorms-ev3-platform?utm_source=atom1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed