HitchBOT is tracked by GPS and social media. — -- Canadians who are used to seeing mountains, lakes and other beautiful scenery across their country have had a surprise addition to the landscape ...

HitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot, is attempting to travel across Canada. Hitchbot, a tiny robot, will be hitchhiking across Canada, making small talk along the way and live tweeting his adventure.

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Co-creator David Harris Smith carries hitchBOT during its introduction to an audience at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. AP BOSTON — With its thumb raised skyward and a grin on its digital ...

Hitchbot will rely on the kindness of strangers as it thumbs a ride this summer. Along the way, it might teach us a thing or two about the human-robot relationship. Leslie Katz led a team that ...

In 2014, a plucky robot called Hitchbot took a chance on people and hit the road with one thumb in the air. That's right, this hitchhiking robot managed to bum a ride from Halifax, Nova Scotia to ...

HitchBot is a hitchhiking robot who has spent the last three weeks, and 6,000 kilometers, hitching rides across Canada, completely on its own. “From coast to coast, I am hoping to meet new friends, ...

In what is hailed as a world first for robots, a Canadian robot dubbed "hitchBOT" hopes to be the first to hitchhike across Canada this July. Wearing jaunty red boots and yellow garden gloves (with ...

The offspring of a marriage between art and science, Canada’s hitchhiking robot has won thousands of thumbs-ups as it tweeted its adventures across 4,000 miles of North America over the last three ...