Hitchhiking Robot's Cross-Country Trip Ends In Philadelphia

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 2, 2015 @02:28AM from the it's-the-wink-before-the-slight dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A hitchhiking robot that successfully traveled across Canada in 26 days last year and parts of Europe, has met its demise in Philly. Created as a "social experiment," hitchBOT started its journey in the U.S. in Marblehead, Massachusetts, on July 17 with its thumb raised up and tape wrapped around its head that read "San Francisco or bust." After about two weeks in the U.S., someone in Philadelphia damaged the robot beyond repair. "Sadly, sadly it's come to an end," said Frauke Zeller, one of its co-creators. The Independent reports: "The robot was designed to be a talking travel companion and could toss out factoids and carry limited conversation. A GPS in the robot tracked its location, and a camera randomly snapped photos about every 20 minutes to document its travels."

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Re:interesting experiment by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-02 03:24 · Score: 0, Troll

It was? How was it interesting?
If someone left an ugly robot thing like that out by the side of the road I'd take a baseball bat to it too. It was a dumb "art" project and a waste of time and effort that could have better been used doing - well, literally anything else. And now all they have to show from their little "art" project is a pile of debris.