This is why we can’t have nice hitchhiking robots. HitchBOT, the cheerful hitchhiking robot that had made cross-country trips across Canada, the Netherlands and Germany, had intended to travel ...

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 ...

HitchBOT met an untimely demise while in Philadelphia over the weekend when some dude in a football jersey stomped its head into a curb. Newly found footage of the hitchhiking robot’s attacker ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Well, she might forgive you for giving this adorable passenger a lift. Meet hitchBOT: the galosh-wearing, crosscountry-traveling robot who's thumbing his way across Canada this summer. Watch the ...