In what is hailed as a world first for robots, a Canadian robot dubbed "hitchBOT" hopes to be the first to hitchhike across Canada this July. Wearing jaunty red boots and yellow garden gloves (with one in a permanent "thumbing a ride" gesture), HitchBOT is going to try to use his good looks and power of speech to convince people to pick him up and drive him from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia. .. Continue Reading hitchBOT aims to be first robot to hitchhike across Canada

Section: Robotics

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Canada, McMaster University, Robotics, Robots, Ryerson University

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