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Hitchhiking robot which crossed Canada destroyed after only 300 miles in the US
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:32 pm
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A hitchhiking robot trying to make its way across the U.S. learned the hard way that you can’t always depend on the kindness of strangers.
Only 300 miles into its journey from sea to shining sea, hitchBOT was found decapitated in Philadelphia.
HitchBOT was created by a team of communications researchers from Ontario and was designed to be a talking travel companion. The bot was immobile on its own and relied on strangers to pick it up and pass it along to other travelers or leave it in a place others may notice.
“We want to see what people do with this kind of technology when we leave it up to them,” Frauke Zeller, one of the creators, told the AP. “It’s an art project in the wild — it invites people to participate.”
Last year the bot successfully hitchhiked across Canada in 26 days.
Unfortunately things did not work out so well this time around. HitchBOT was found beaten to a pulp on Saturday outside the City of Brotherly Love, just two weeks into its cross-country journey from Marblehead, Mass., to San Francisco.
Friendly hitchhiking robot decapitated in Philadelphia only two weeks into a cross-country journey
This post was edited on 8/3/15 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:33 pm to Street Hawk
That's just America telling Skynet to go frick itself.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:33 pm to Street Hawk
how many robots are they going to send?
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:34 pm to Street Hawk
How many times will this robot get destroyed?!
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:34 pm to Street Hawk
That is so "Philly" of them, it's almost cliche.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:34 pm to Street Hawk
Someone picked "or bust"
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:35 pm to Street Hawk
I know it was Philly but dont even think about blaming black people. If it was us, it would have been found in a pawn shop.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:39 pm to Commandeaux
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but dont even think about blaming black people
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:40 pm to Commandeaux
It was destroyed at 5:36am on Saturday, by a white guy is a Randell Cunningham jersey. I think there is a slight chance the guy was drunk.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:42 pm to Commandeaux
Oh no, this was a overweight group of white guys, probably 4 of them, wearing three eagles jerseys and one hooded sweatshirt.
Horrific accents, terrible taste in... well... everything.
Horrific accents, terrible taste in... well... everything.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:42 pm to Street Hawk
He's been annihilated three times now.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:43 pm to cjk5h
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It was destroyed at 5:36am on Saturday, by a white guy is a Randell Cunningham jersey.
OK, I was close...
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:44 pm to cjk5h
How many times will the Germans Bomb Pearl Harbor in a week.
J/K had to
J/K had to
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:45 pm to Street Hawk
DEATH TO THE THINKING MACHINES!!!
We let them in our towns...into our homes...into our lives...
All the while behind their digital smiles they were plotting...waiting...watching us with the cold dead eyes of a hungry predator.
Give 'em hell in philly boys.
WOLVERINES!!!
We let them in our towns...into our homes...into our lives...
All the while behind their digital smiles they were plotting...waiting...watching us with the cold dead eyes of a hungry predator.
Give 'em hell in philly boys.
WOLVERINES!!!
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:45 pm to Street Hawk
DEATH TO THE THINKING MACHINES!!!
We let them in our towns...into our homes...into our lives...
All the while behind their digital smiles they were plotting...waiting...watching us with the cold dead eyes of a hungry predator.
Give 'em hell in philly boys.
WOLVERINES!!!
We let them in our towns...into our homes...into our lives...
All the while behind their digital smiles they were plotting...waiting...watching us with the cold dead eyes of a hungry predator.
Give 'em hell in philly boys.
WOLVERINES!!!
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:46 pm to Street Hawk
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found decapitated in Philadelphia.
Hmmm.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:49 pm to Street Hawk
Sold his arse for scrap along with some interstate bridge railings.
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