Hitch Hiking Robot Murdered in Philadelphia

Hitchbot, the hitchhiking robot met a tragic end to its journey as it was destroyed after just two weeks in the United States.

You have to be a special type of scum to want to destroy a robot. hitchBOT, hitchhiked across Canada and parts of Europe, before it was damaged beyond repair in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia.

hotchBOT was designed to be a talking travel companion that could throw out random factoids. “We want to see what people do with this kind of technology when we leave it up to them,” Frauke Zeller, one of the creators and an assistant professor in professional communication at Toronto’s Ryerson University, told the AP. “It’s an art project in the wild — it invites people to participate.”

Well… unfortunately now we know what will happen.

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