The Dash is advertised as “A child’s first real robot friend”, which brings to mind questions of how prolific robots are going to be once our children are adults. Well, if the sci-fi future is approaching as quickly as it seems to be, it’s best to prepare kids early.

Dash and Dot are two clever robots created by Wonder Workshop to help teach the basic of robotics to kids. Dot is a little ball of brains that can be programmed by using free apps Wonder and Blockly (iPhone and Android compatible) allowing you to control its lights, sounds, and sensors as well as games ready to play straight out of the box. Dash has all the brains AND the ability to respond to the world around it, with voice recognition, speakers to talk back to you, object navigation and three wheels to dance and run around your house.