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American educational robotics company Dexter Industries<\/a> has been acquired by fellow American robotics company Modular Robotics<\/a>. Dexter Industries, the company behind the excellent Raspberry Pi-based GoPiGo<\/a> and the micro:bit-based Gigglebot<\/a> as well as several others was merged into Modular Robotics back in July. Since then, they’ve been integrating their operations. Modular Robotics, based in Boulder, Colorado, make Cubelets – a fantastic way to get your kids into physical computing and robotics. You start off without a screen, assembling the blocks together, before moving on to using Blockly to program more advanced behaviour.<\/p>\n

For now, both product lines are expected to continue, which is very welcome news for this blogger – the GoPiGo in particular is a brilliant robotics kit and the visual programming environment\/software that goes with it (Bloxter<\/a>) is first-rate, providing a user-friendly interface to help get you started with programming your robot. I reviewed the kit and the software<\/a> a couple of years ago and it’s a great starting point.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how things progress as the companies innovate and work together to create new, exciting ways of encouraging kids of all ages to get into robotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American educational robotics company Dexter Industries has been acquired by fellow American robotics company Modular Robotics. Dexter Industries, the company behind the excellent Raspberry Pi-based GoPiGo and the micro:bit-based Gigglebot as well as several others was merged into Modular Robotics…<\/p>\n

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