Hitchhiking robot that relied on human kindness found decapitated (2015)

Re:Hitchhiking robot that relied on human kindness found dec... by blobbers on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @01:06PM (#16117262)

Robot aside, is this endemic of the feelings held outside the San Francisco towards robots, technology, and the rich? The robot didn't really have much to it except it wanted to go to San Francisco.

The disconnection of pollsters with the reality of the world later showed up in the american elections a few years later.

Part of me thinks that this journey might have at least been a bit longer if it had started on the west coast and moved east.

I'll go google the follow-up to this version of the robot...

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Re:Hitchhiking robot that relied on human kindness found dec... by danso on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @02:39PM (#16118215)

This was the latest article I found (Aug 6, 2015): http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150806_Pranksters_admit_...

If Hitchbot's death was the result of late night drunkards or social media pranksters, I don't think its chances in San Francisco or Los Angeles would be any better. In fact, I think its chances would be much worse in areas filled with Internet/social-media savvy people.

edit: maybe with the exception of Times Square, where it would be not only under constant surveillance, but not even thought to be odd or interesting. Unless whoever dropped it off failed to give advance notice to the NYPD of course.

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