  We discuss a network of Kitaev wires coupled to several individually-tunable
quantum dots as an extension of the recent experiments on a quantum dot coupled
to a nanowire hosting Majorana zero modes [Deng et al. Science 354 1557 (2016)
and Deng et al. arXiv:1712.03536 (2017)]. The setup features localized Majorana
modes with exact zero energy and we show that they can be manipulated by solely
acting on the quantum dots. A braiding process can be obtained by arranging
three wires as a trijunction and a charge readout of the quantum dots can be
used to reveal the non-Abelian statistics of Majorana zero modes. The setup can
be scaled up to serve the more advanced purposes of topological quantum
computation.
