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.
Originally spotted at io9.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @03:13AM
Selfishness and fucking over everyone possible for entertainment or personal gain is the American way. Its literally the core of American society, what everything else is built on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @04:29AM
Every country has its form of humour. France uses farce, for example. The basis of US humour is insults. Says a lot about the people.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Monday August 03 2015, @02:34PM
I thought it was wanton abuse of poodles.
Washington DC delenda est.