hitchBOT
Sign in to savehitchBOT was a Canadian hitchhiking robot created by professors David Harris Smith of McMaster University and Frauke Zeller of Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson University) in 2013. It gained international attention for successfully hitchhiking across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands. In 2015, its attempt to hitchhike across the United States ended when it was stripped, dismembered, and decapitated in Philadelphia.
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Within Vinony's link graph, hitchBOT is referenced by 9 other articles, and connects out to United States, Germany and Canada.
It is catalogued under topics including 2013 robots, 2015 disestablishments in Pennsylvania and Hitchhiking.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Robot.name
- hitchBOT
- Robot.image
- Hitchbot archie.jpg
- Robot.caption
- hitchBOT (middle) displayed at an exhibition
- Robot.type
- Humanoid robot
- Robot.year_of_creation
- 2013
- Robot.purpose
- Study social interaction with humans
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- robot
- Has part
- camera
- Country
- Canada
- Country of origin
- Canada
- Collection
- Canada Science and Technology Museum
- Manufacturer
- McMaster University
- Official website
- www.hitchbot.me
- Image
- Hitchbot Goes to the Fair (15844794490).jpg
- Significant event
- road trip
- Has use
- social experiment
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- Commons category
- HitchBOT
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-08-01
- has characteristic
- Artificial intelligence
- powered by
- automotive battery
- social media followers
- 41656
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Travels
- Legacy
- Similar robots
- References
- External links
hitchBOT was a Canadian hitchhiking robot created by professors David Harris Smith of McMaster University and Frauke Zeller of Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson University) in 2013. It gained international attention for successfully hitchhiking across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands. In 2015, its attempt to hitchhike across the United States ended when it was stripped, dismembered, and decapitated in Philadelphia.
== Description == thumb|upright|Original hitchBOT in collections Smith, who had hitchhiked across Canada three times, and Zeller had "designed the robot to learn about how people interact with technology and ask the question, 'Can robots trust human beings?'" The robot could not walkit completed its "hitchhiking" journeys by "asking" to be carried by those who picked it up. The robot could engage in basic conversations, discuss facts, and function as a robotic companion during travels in the vehicle of the driver who picked it up. As part of a social experiment, it was equipped with social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hitchBOT” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.