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The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well

posted by janrinok on Sunday August 02 2015, @10:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-robots-will-remember... dept.

tonyPick writes:

The Hitchbot, a hitchhiking robot which was planned to tour the US has apparently failed to make it out of Philadelphia.

When hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot started his journey in Boston two weeks ago he wanted to see the entire country. Unfortunately, he never made it out of the Northeast. The researchers who built hitchBOT announced today that they need to stop the experiment because hitchBOT was vandalized in Philadelphia.
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The goal of the hitchhiking trip was to see how humans would interact with hitchBOT. And apparently the answer was "not well." HitchBOT has been around the world, including trips across the entirety of Canada and Germany without major incident. But America is clearly a hard land for our robot brothers and sisters.

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Originally spotted at io9.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @02:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @02:15AM (#217186)

    My 1st thought was also small minds with big guns. [google.com]

    -- gewg_

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @04:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @04:02AM (#217230)

    I see a fair amount of those in Europe too.

    • (Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Wednesday August 05 2015, @07:22AM

      by FakeBeldin (3360) on Wednesday August 05 2015, @07:22AM (#218370) Journal

      Let me counter your anecdotal evidence with mine:
      Malta, Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Vatican City, San Marino, Sweden, Norway: nowhere near "a fair amount" of bullethole-ridden signs.

      If your anecdotal evidence is correct, maybe this is a eastern-europe thing. It's definitely not common to the whole continent at any rate.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:18AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:18AM (#218387)

        Eastern Europe? Neven seen a single bullet hole in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, or Estonia. Ditto Finland, ditto Russia, depending on what you want to include in "eastern Europe". Only got 2 decades of experience of the region though.