Capsela products were originally manufactured[citation needed] by the Mitsubishi Pencil Company.
[2] The series was then licensed out to Play Jour and has since been produced by VTech, Kidology, and other subsidiaries.
[citation needed] Capsela products were originally sold in at least four ranges: In January 1987, Access Software announced The Robotic Workshop, a kit designed for home computers that used a range of Capsela parts.
The kit also includes an electronic control unit that plugs into the user port of a Commodore 64, an instruction manual with 50 tutorial projects, and special programming software on a floppy disk.
"[9] In the "Top 100 Games of 1981", they praised it as a "construction set that is more than child's play" and noting that "The transparent parts make it easy to learn about motors, gear ratios, and transmission of energy.