Don't hitchhike in Philadelphia.

[phrodeau]

http://www.techspot.com/news/61607-...t-destroyed-upon-reaching-philadelpilhia.html

HitchBOT was only two weeks into an attempt to cross the United States and had already successfully travelled through Canada, the Netherlands and Germany without incident.

HitchBOT’s US tour had started in Marblehead, Massachusetts, on July 17. It traveled around Boston, where it checked off one of the items on its bucket list by attending a Red Sox baseball game. The robot’s adventure came to a premature end upon reaching Philadelphia on Saturday, when someone beheaded hitchBOT and removed all its electronics.

The creators were sent an image of the vandalized robot but cannot track its location because the battery is dead. They said they don't know who destroyed it or why.

http://www.newslook.com/videos/868658-hitcch-hiking-robot-hitchbot-on-a-quest-to-tour-us

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

http://iruntheinternet.com/lulzdump/images/skynet-roomba-knife-earlyyears-terminator-13315954576.png

 

[Lancecastor]

The killing of Hitchbot rather elegantly underscores the fundamental flaw with American society.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

just more proof that union members are thugs

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Let me get this straight. The vandals removed "all its electronics" and the robot builders "don't know why"?

 

[rosco rathbone]

Fuck that bot. So we're supposed to treat a tech-jockey science experiment--designed to ascertain just how we humans behave around bots with cutesy exteriors--as a human? I'm glad someone knocked its block off.

 

[islandman]

Fuck that bot. So we're supposed to treat a tech-jockey science experiment--designed to ascertain just how we humans behave around bots with cutesy exteriors--as a human? I'm glad someone knocked its block off.

It could have only happened in a city that booed Santa Claus.