Americans Are Destroying Robots and No One is Stopping Them
The robot revolution is meeting resistance, especially in the US, where attitudes about artificial intelligence have soured dramatically.
HitchBot
HitchBOT was a Canadian social robot created in 2014 by researchers from McMaster University and Ryerson University to explore human-robot interaction in public spaces. Designed with a cylindrical body, rubber arms, and a screen displaying a smiley face, HitchBOT relied on strangers to give it rides across cities and countries. It successfully hitchhiked across Canada and parts of Europe, using GPS, speech recognition, and social media to share its journey. The experiment ended in 2015 when the robot was vandalized in Philadelphia, but it remains a notable study in social trust, crowdsourced robotics, and the human response to AI in everyday life.
Booster Robotics Doubles Down on Extreme AI Robot Abuse
If you’re disturbed by how Kai Cenat treats his robots, wait until you see how Booster Robotics treats its humanoids.