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1 posted on 08/01/2015 5:31:10 PM PDT by conservativehusker
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Luddite Amish?


2 posted on 08/01/2015 5:33:39 PM PDT by null and void (If the government can't protect the Marines, how can we expect it to protect us?)
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Its a shame. This is a neat idea and someone decided to vandalize it. It made it through New York and Boston, Philly that bad?


4 posted on 08/01/2015 5:37:33 PM PDT by conservativehusker
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Filthadelphia....


5 posted on 08/01/2015 5:41:43 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (I love my dogs, but a .45 is man's best friend...)
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Send Niska...

She'll fix their wagons.

6 posted on 08/01/2015 5:42:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Further details about the hitchhiking trip and the vandalism will be available by August 5.

If you hear more about what happened, please let us know! Having always lived in the Philly area - and lived and worked in it for a while - I'm curious.

I just checked further, and another article says the robot was "damaged beyond repair," and the battery is dead so the researchers can't track its location:

http://www.cp24.com/lifestyle/technology/hitchbot-damaged-beyond-repair-by-unknown-assailant-in-philly-1.2498652

I'm surprised it was able to travel as far as it did.

8 posted on 08/01/2015 6:25:12 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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Sodomized, urinated on, lunch money stolen, knocked unconscious or something heinous and dastardly like being called “racist”. The “brothers” don’t have brotherly love.


12 posted on 08/01/2015 6:46:05 PM PDT by UncleSam (Why must someone else always make the final decisions?)
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adorable robot who was only counting on the kindness of strangers to hitchhike across the country

Great. Now even the hobos are being replaced by robots.

13 posted on 08/01/2015 6:47:53 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Further details about the hitchhiking trip and the vandalism will be available by August 5.


It takes time to write politically correct verbiage.


14 posted on 08/01/2015 6:52:59 PM PDT by Yardstick
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Wonder how the program was supposed to work. Unlike a person, if you picked up and then left off a robot, you’d be littering.


15 posted on 08/01/2015 6:55:56 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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If we behaved badly in St. Louis Jack Buck would shame us for dishonoring Stan the Man. No one wanted to get called unsportsmenlike by Jack Buck.


17 posted on 08/01/2015 8:09:13 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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R.I.P Robot!


21 posted on 08/02/2015 3:10:08 PM PDT by Krosan
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To: Albion Wilde; Tribune7; TAdams8591; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; wireman; Mr. Binnacle; brityank; ...
**** Philly Metro Ping ****
The robot was last seen "alive" on Elfreth's ally.


22 posted on 08/02/2015 4:45:04 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: conservativehusker; null and void; Paladin2; Aut Pax Aut Bellum; BenLurkin; vladimir998; ...
You can watch HitchBot's last ride (in Philadelphia) right here:

Link with more info & video

Skip forward in the video to the part where they pick up the robot and then drop it off at 3:00 in the morning.

26 posted on 08/02/2015 9:15:35 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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