My daughter took on Dash and Dot, the kid-friendly robots that teach programming

Before my daughter got to test out Dash and Dot, our dogs were already getting to know them.

I’d gotten the two kid-friendly robots — Dash, who sits up high on three wheels, and Dot, his more static little partner — up and running less than 10 minutes after opening the box. That included installing five different apps from the Apple App Store and giving them both a quick update over their Bluetooth Smart connections. I guess they brought the kid out of my because, a couple of minutes in, I was running Dash around the living room floor, making him bark at the dogs. They were both kind of puzzled that this little blue thing — most definitely not a dog — had a mind, and a voice, of its own.