Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, ...

MILPITAS, Calif. -- The newest staff member at a South Bay hotel is so hard-working he never sleeps and doesn't ask for tips. This hotel helper is creating a lot of buzz and a few beeps as well. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dash Robotics, creators of Dash, the the world’s first foldable, programmable origami robot that you can build yourself, has officially crowdfunded their project yesterday afternoon after being live ...