💻 Coding · 🤖 AI robots, toys and kits · 🏫 Classroom tools
Dash
By Wonder Workshop (now MORAVIA Education). Visit Dash
Desk research from the maker's own pages. Not yet tried by us. Checked 2026-10-24.
Dash is a sturdy rolling robot that children ages 6 to 11 program to move, light up, make sounds, respond to voices and tell stories. Kids start with drag-and-drop coding in free apps like Wonder and Blockly and can move on to JavaScript. Add-ons include a launcher, drawing kit and gripper. It is widely used in schools and in the Wonder League robotics competition. MORAVIA Education acquired Wonder Workshop's assets.
Our take: A dependable coding robot for ages 6-11 with clear privacy promises; families wanting no screens should look at Cubetto or KIBO.
Checked in a browser
A browser check on 2026-10-25: what loads, the ads and trackers we saw, and what a child meets first. Not a hands-on test.
| Child safety: 4 out of 5 | No ads or chat; the page has Teacher Log in, Student Access, Shop and Pricing links aimed at schools. |
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| Data: 2 out of 5 | Several trackers loaded before consent: Microsoft Clarity (session recording), the Facebook pixel, Bing's ad tag, Leadfeeder and an IP-location lookup, though the cookie notice offers 'Reject All'; no ad was shown. |
| Ease: 3 out of 5 | A cookie notice covers the lower half, and the page is a school sales page with carousels rather than a place for a child to start. |
| Cost honesty: 3 out of 5 | Dash is a paid robot; Shop, Pricing and 'Level Up with Blockly Pro' prompts are on the first screen. |
What we found
- Contacted 13 third-party sites, including clarity.ms, facebook.net, bing.com, lfeeder.com, leadsourcing.co and ipapi.co.
- 16 cookies set, including from bing.com and clarity.ms, while the cookie notice ('Accept All / Customise / Reject All') was still unanswered.
- The cookie notice itself says cookies are used to 'serve personalised ads'.
- Links out to school district sites, a kidSAFE seal page, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
From the test: An ad-free sales page for a paid classroom robot that runs session recording and ad tracking before you answer its cookie notice.
| Ages it suits | about 6-11 |
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| What its terms say about age | Terms say you must be of legal age to form a contract, or, if a minor, have a parent's permission and the parent agrees to the terms for you. (terms) |
| Price | Paid. Dash $189.99 (raised from $179.99); Make Wonder STEM Home $125; Make Wonder free tier for up to 35 students (Oct 2026) |
| Works on | A device, iPhone and iPad, Android, Web |
| Account | No account needed |
| Ads | None |
| In-app purchases | None |
| The AI in it | No AI. |
What's good
- No camera; recordings stay on the robot
- Free coding apps from blocks to JavaScript
- Works offline on tablets
- Clear child-privacy promises
Watch for
- Needs a tablet or computer
- Company changed owners
- Recent price increases
Data and privacy
Dash has no camera. The privacy policy promises COPPA compliance (kidSAFE listed), no selling of kids' data, and no collecting of kids' voices or images; voice clips a child records go only to the robot over Bluetooth and stay there. Read the privacy policy.
Does it work?
No independent study found; the maker's own claims only.
In the Big Index
- On the list 13 best AI robots for kids, by age
- On the list 15 best coding robots for kids
- Wonder Workshop
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Where these facts come from
- https://www.makewonder.com/
- https://www.makewonder.com/pricing/
- https://makewonder.com/privacy/
- https://makewonder.com/tos/
- https://moravia-education.com/products/dash
- https://moravia-education.com/products/make-wonder-stem-homeschool
Prices, terms and features change. Nobody paid to be listed, nothing here is an affiliate link, and Peabody never rates itself. Where we and the maker disagree, the maker's own pages are the ones to trust.