WF-8G2DQK
Robot Destroyed while Hitchhiking through the United States
A non-actuated conversational robot that previously asked people to move it across Canada was destroyed shortly after beginning its attempt to replicate the journey across the United States.
- Date it happened
- 2015-08-01
- Organisation involved
- Frauke Zeller, David Harris
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