This is why we can’t have nice things.
A hitchhiking robot named hitchBOT
set off on a cross-country journey two weeks ago, starting in Boston.
It successfully made it through the rough-and-tumble streets of
Beantown, Gloucester, Marblehead, and New York City, only to get
completely torn apart in Philadelphia. Et tu, City of Brotherly Love?
The now-destroyed robot hails from Port Credit, Ontario. It completed a successful 26-day journey
in 2014 in which it “traveled over 10,000 km from Halifax, Nova Scotia
to Victoria, British Columbia.” Then in early 2015, hitchBOT moved onto a
10-day German adventure, followed by a three-week jaunt in the
Netherlands.
Three countries. Zero incidents. But once hitchBOT
made it stateside, it didn’t even make it past the Mason-Dixon line
before getting the wiring kicked out of him.
It explain what happened on its blog: “Oh dear, my body was damaged, but
I live on back home and with all my friends. I guess sometimes bad
things happen to good robots! My trip must come to an end for now, but
my love for humans will never fade. Thank you to all my friends.”
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