#Journey of an adorable hitchhiking robot itchbotended in Philadelphia A social research experimental robot named itchbotwas made by Dr. David Harris Smith of Mcmaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and Dr Frauke Zeller Ryerson University, Toronto to explore the streets and make new friends. The journey started at Salem, Mass. And was supposed to terminate at San francisco but the robot was vandalized at Philadelphia. This human dependent adorable robot traversed the streets of Canada and Netherlands and made many friendly connections. It was designed with all the latest equipments like GPS, video and audio, solar panels 3g facilities and foam arms to hug and shake hand that made it more attractive and helped in socialising. The aim of the robot was to strike off the items from the bucket list by seeking help from the strangers throughout its journey from Salem to San francisco . But this journey ended at Philadelphia on a weekend and the innocent robot was disembodied as stated in a report by a Canadian journalist Lauren Oeil. The basic idea behind this social experiment as explained by Harris Smith and Zellar in a Harvard Business Review article was to test the attitude of people towards technology. This innovation attracted about 35 000 Twitter followers and 48,000 Facebook ikes (Now more than 87,000) The tough town of Philadelphia did not treat the hitchhiking friendly robot so well. However, the poor itchbothas no grudges against anyone and is now in its recovery phase
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