https://twitter.com/hitchBOT/status/627593886186254336
The 2015 HitchBOT saga is over—or, at least, the original hitchhiking robot's journey has formally concluded for now. The anthropomorphized robot equipped with cameras, microphones, speakers, and external battery chargers had set out to criss-cross the United States in July—and conduct a sort of social experiment—by asking humans to ferry it along, only to be stopped short by vandals in Philadelphia on Saturday.
Not content to have its "brotherly love" reputation tarnished, some robo-minded citizens at Philadelphia hacker/maker space The Hacktory responded by offering to rebuild or repair HitchBOT and send the yellow-gloved wonder on its way. On Wednesday, the bot's co-creators at Toronto's Ryerson University responded with a polite but firm declination.
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