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HitchBot is an autonomous robot originally created in Canada – predominately - to analyze the relationships between humans and autonomous technology. The small ‘garden chic’ robot, as described by hitchBOT’s creators, made its way across Canada via hitchhiking in 2014. The child-size, immobile hitchBOT, gained a massive following on social media and large coverage from the press. It even traveled to Europe. Unfortunately, the kindness of strangers ran out and hitchBOT met a fateful end in 2015 when it was found destroyed in the streets of Philadelphia, MA, USA.
The project is considered a milestone in robot-human relationships within social sciences. The team was about to gather invaluable data on the interactions hitchBOT had while traveling, as well as gain a deeper understanding of human empathy for anthropomorphic objects.
For Macromedia’s Prof. Dr. Gernot Wolfram the hitchBOT’s artistic roots are particularly exciting. “Perception and emotion are always a part of a kind of social sculpture in artistically based robots.”
Professor and lecturer Helmut Kuhn also aided in facilitating the event.
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Photo: G.Wolfram
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