HitchBOT

hitchBOT
hitchBOT displayed at an exhibition
Inventor
  • David Harris Smith
  • Frauke Zeller
TypeHumanoid robot

hitchBOT was a Canadian hitchhiking robot created by professors David Harris Smith of McMaster University and Frauke Zeller of Toronto Metropolitan University in 2013.[1][2][3] It gained international attention for successfully hitchhiking across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but in 2015 its attempt to hitchhike across the United States ended when it was stripped and decapitated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference hB MediaKit Summer2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Atlantic 2014-06-12 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "HitchBOT the hitchhiking robot". CBC News: The National. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 2019-04-01 – via YouTube.
  4. ^ Dave, Paresh (3 August 2015). "Hitchhiking robot that made it across Canada maimed on U.S. road trip". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2015-08-04.