
On July 27 a little robot with a beer cooler torso wrapped in solar panels, water noodle arms, and big wellington boots plans to hitchhike solo from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Victoria, British Columbia. It has the ability to consult Wikipedia when it needs to make small talk with its new friends on the road.If you’re not already familiar, hitchBOT is a collaborative, conceptual art project involving elements of interaction design, mechatronics, software semantics, new media, modern philosophy, and a whole slew of high-tech and social research fields that I didn’t know existed.
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