Everyone’s favourite hitch-hiking robot could be making a come-back
Posted Aug 6, 2015 03:54:45 PM.
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Everyone’s favourite hitch-hiking robot could be making a come-back after its untimely demise over the weekend.
The child-sized creation, who travelled from place to place with the help of strangers, is being shipped home to Canada.
HitchBOT co-creator and Waterloo native David Harris Smith says him and his partner wanted to develop a creative way to explore issues of social safety.
“Do we think that the world is a good place? Are we able to engage technologies to integrate with some of the best of human social behaviours, such as empathy? So… the idea of a hitch-hiking robot seemed like a good place to start.”
The solar panel-powered robot had successfully thumbed rides across Canada and through parts of Europe when it was dismantled early on Saturday while trying to find a lift out of Philadelphia.
Smith says the droid could be reassembled, taken back to Philadelphia and allowed to complete its U.S. travels.
Listen to more about HitchBOT’s adventures here:
