So this is pretty funny.
Meet
hitchBOT, a hitch-hiking robot constructed by a conglomerate of Canadian Universities.
hitchBot was released into the world as a social experiment, to gauge human reaction to a semi-autonomous robot. hitchBot sits on the side of the road and asks to be picked up and taken towards its destination.
People did. They picked it up, dropped it off, engaged it in conversation, took photographs with it and talked about it on the 'net. hitchBot travelled tens of thousands of kilometres throughout Canada and Germany, happily being picked up and dropped off by strangers who saw it sitting on the side of the road.
Then hitchBOT made the injudicious decision to visit the United States.
It managed to travel only a very short distance before it was
captured, tortured, dismembered and beheaded.
-SRA. Auckland, 4/viii 2015. (reposted.)
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