Would You Pick Up This Hitchhiking Robot?

HitchBOT the robot will leave the Institute for Applied Creativity at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax on July 27th, 2014. It will stick out its thumb and attempt to hitchhike across Canada to Vancouver, British Columbia, a distance of 6,158 km (3,826 miles). And it be doing it all on its own. "Using speech recognition, speech processing, and social media, it will try to charm its way from one coast to the other."



Although it is able to communicate this bucket of odds and ends cannot move on its own and therefore depends heavily upon the kindness of strangers.  I'd be more inclined to pick it up if it had a sweet little face.



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Thanks Bruce!