HitchBOT, the robot that hitchhiked across Canada and Europe, was found vandalized beyond repair in Philadelphia on Saturday. Its makers hope people remember "all the joy" it brought. A bad thing ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at ... a brief and brutal end this past weekend. Hitchhiking robot hitchBOT, which has safely traveled Canada, Germany and the ...

PHILADELPHIA - A hitchhiking robot that captured the hearts of fans worldwide met its demise in the U.S. The Canadian researchers who created hitchBOT as a social experiment told The Associated ...

Earlier this month, people all over the world mourned the end of HitchBOT, the robot who set out from Boston to hitchhike across America -- and only made it as far as Philadelphia, where he was ...

The story of hitchBOT — the robot that had visited Europe and New York City, but couldn't make it out of Philadelphia in one piece — may not be over. A Philadelphia tech group is offering to ...

A pair of YouTube pranksters have admitted to faking a surveillance video that purported to show the destruction of the hitchhiking Canadian robot hitchBOT. YouTube star Jesse Wellens of ...

Equal parts art project and social media experiment, with a dash of backyard hackery “robotics” thrown in for good measure, hitchBot was an experiment in the kindness of strangers. That is ...

YouTube star Jesse Wellens of Prank vs. Prank and his friend Ed Bassmaster were the last people believed to have seen hitchBOT before it was destroyed. Wellens is also the sole source of the ...

HitchBOT, a one-year-old device from Port Credit, Ontario, died early in the morning of August 1, 2015 in Philadelphia. The three-foot-tall hitchhiking robot, a high-tech Flat Stanley that ...

The last person to have been seen with hitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot from Canada destroyed in Philadelphia over the weekend, was YouTube prankster and personality Jesse Wellens. He allegedly ...

After enduring plenty of criticism for the destruction of HitchBot, Philadelphia is seeking forgiveness through a new robot inspired by Pope Francis’ upcoming visit: the Pope Bot. Created by ...

I have a feeling that when true Artificial Intelligence is developed HitchBOT will be handing over evidence of any bad behaviour and letting Skynet do its worst.