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Meet HitchBot. It's Canadian, about as tall as a six-year-old, and has a serious travel bug. It's on a mission to hitchhike across our neighbor nation to the north, relying on the kindness of Canadians the entire way.
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?"
HitchBot comes decked out with a rubber hitchhiking hand, speech recognition software, and even its own Wi-Fi network. Kind souls who pick up HitchBot can chat with it, challenge it to a game of Canadian trivia, and tweet to it @hitchbot. It will ask drivers to recharge it by plugging it into a car cigarette lighter.
The wandering bot left Halifax, Nova Scotia on Sunday, July 27, and it's already made it as far west as Toronto. But it still has a ways to go before it reaches its destination: Victoria, British Columbia, more than 3,700 miles away.
It's become a social media phenomenon along the way. Here's how strangers and friends alike have documented HitchBot's travels. You can do it, little guy!
