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tonyPick [soylentnews.org] writes:

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

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.

Previous SN article [soylentnews.org].

Originally spotted at io9 [io9.com]

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