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Canada sent a friendly robot to America. Americans destroyed it.

This is why we can’t have nice things.  On Saturday, vandals in Philadelphia destroyed a hitchhiking robot from Canada named HitchBot, two weeks into its U.S. trip. Designed as a social experiment, HitchBot could talk to humans and upload photos to social media. If you found it, HitchBot would tell you where it wanted to go and ask for a ride. Worry not though, HitchBot may get a happy ending.

Update: There’s now video of HitchBot being destroyed.

Good news! We talked to the crew working to give HitchBot a new life. It may take some time, but they’re dedicated to keeping the spirit of the project alive.

the ONLY upside to this. is that if there ever is an army of hostile AI robots that Americans will d e s t r o y them.

poor hitchbot this whole thing makes me Embarrassed to be an American