There’s a robot attempting to hitchhike its way across Canada.
Professors at McMaster University and Ryerson University developed HitchBot as a collaborative art project. “Usually, we are concerned whether we can trust robots,” they said in a statement. “But this project takes it the other way and asks: Can robots trust human beings?”
I suspect it’ll make it because it’s so novel. On the other hand, I wouldn’t be surprised if the publicity this is getting will come back to bite them in the long run. I wouldn’t be surprised if HitchBot sees South America long before it sees British Columbia.