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HitchBOT is an adorable, magical robot that has successfully hitchhiked across Canada and in Europe. It recently began its first U.S. trip.
HitchBOT tweets, Facebooks and Instagrams its travels. It relies on the kindness of strangers to pick it up and help it along its way. The robot can engage in basic conversation with people, with the goal of getting those it encounters to help it make its way to a specific destination.
HitchBOT was built by students and professors from McMaster, Ryerson and the University of Toronto, and successfully hitchhiked accross Canada last summer. It's also had successful trips in Germany and the Netherlands.
AND NOW HITCHBOT IS DEAD, DEAD, DEAD.
Recent posts on the robot's social media accounts revealed that its body had been damaged and the American trip had come to an end.
A message posted on the project's website said that "hitchBOT was vandalized overnight in Philadelphia."
An Associated Press report was even more specific and disconcerting:
The creators were sent an image of the vandalized robot Saturday but cannot track its location because the battery is dead. They said they don't know who destroyed it or why. But co-creator Frauke Zeller said many children who adored the robot are now heartbroken.
That's right, some monster(s) in Philly attacked hitchBOT. And now no one knows where it is.
(More in link)
http://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilver...ng-robot-was-attacked-in-philadelp#.lxjll74g1
HitchBOT tweets, Facebooks and Instagrams its travels. It relies on the kindness of strangers to pick it up and help it along its way. The robot can engage in basic conversation with people, with the goal of getting those it encounters to help it make its way to a specific destination.
HitchBOT was built by students and professors from McMaster, Ryerson and the University of Toronto, and successfully hitchhiked accross Canada last summer. It's also had successful trips in Germany and the Netherlands.
AND NOW HITCHBOT IS DEAD, DEAD, DEAD.
Recent posts on the robot's social media accounts revealed that its body had been damaged and the American trip had come to an end.
A message posted on the project's website said that "hitchBOT was vandalized overnight in Philadelphia."
An Associated Press report was even more specific and disconcerting:
The creators were sent an image of the vandalized robot Saturday but cannot track its location because the battery is dead. They said they don't know who destroyed it or why. But co-creator Frauke Zeller said many children who adored the robot are now heartbroken.
That's right, some monster(s) in Philly attacked hitchBOT. And now no one knows where it is.
(More in link)
http://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilver...ng-robot-was-attacked-in-philadelp#.lxjll74g1
