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Wonder Workshop, the education technology company that introduced Dash and Dot to classrooms, has developed a virtual world with a virtual robot for student access in remote classes. The digital ...

Have you ever tried to catch a running cockroach? They're fast little suckers, and resilient too, which is why scientists at the University of California Berkeley modeled their latest robot after them ...

In the Ideal Gifts series, The Next Web team shares personal recommendations for gifts to give this holiday season. My household has had a demo unit of Dash for about a week and I don’t have anything ...

A startup called Wonder Workshop is teaching kids how to code using Swift. Founded in 2012, Wonder Workshop makes toy robots, called Dash and Dot, that kids can control with programs they create using ...

Anyone who has tried to kill a cockroach knows just how difficult they can be to be to capture. Not only can they squeeze through very narrow gaps, but they can also instantly accelerate to a running ...

Robots are available on loan this summer in Surrey, B.C. Just in time for the summer school break, Surrey Libraries is now offering children the chance to learn about coding by borrowing one of 90 ...

Dash Robotics, makers of hand-held, bio-inspired robots that are easy and fun for anyone to build, has secured $1.4 million in a round of seed funding led by IronFire Capital. Following the release of ...