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iRobot has acquired Root Robotics, a startup that makes educational robots designed to teach kids programming basics in a fun way.

Whether you're a beginning coder or learning more advanced programming, there's a coding robot for you.

It should be open-ended, Bers said. Interest Some kids may love coding a robot to move through various obstacles; others will quickly get bored and need something else to remain engaged.

A robot named Root has been developed to expose kids of all ages to coding in a way that brings the often daunting world of computer science to life.Root looks like a smoke detector but is ...