Hitchbot

Good afternoon ladies and gentle readers,for those of you unaware Hitchbot was invented at Ryerson University as an experiment. Hitchbot started its journey on 27/07/14, a robot that you could follow on line via its website and web cam the experiment was to see if Hitchbot could travel from one side of Canada to the the other

Over 21 days it travelled Halifax to Victoria on the other side of Canada. From then on there were travels through Germany and Holland before his creators chose to tackle America. Placing it in Massachusetts Hitchbot began its journey however when it got to Philadelphia the city of brotherly love this happened;

Yes readers sadly Hitchbot is dead, this blogger had been following it through Kevin Smiths Smodcast and various on line platforms over this past year so this comes as very sad news. So what have we learnt from this? I say if your going to send a robot out into the world hitchhiking give it some weapons to defend itself, possibly a chainsaw or a laser rifle. This is Innocuous Bystander the voice of common sense and the voice of sending armed robots onto the motorways of the world.