The end of hitchBOT: 'Bad things happen to good robots'
Washington
HITCHBOT - the adorable hitch-hiking robot pieced together from household odds-and-ends - ended its travels across America early, after being destroyed by vandals and left on the side of a road, its creators said.
Envisioned as a social experiment to see if its kind could trust humans, the talking humanoid got its answer - sadly - when it was found dismantled and left for dead in Philadelphia.
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