HitchBOT

Rarity: Common

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

6

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

hitchBOT was a Canadian hitchhiking robot created by professors David Harris Smith of McMaster University and Frauke Zeller of Ryerson University (now known as Toronto Metropolitan University) in 2013. It gained international attention for successfully hitchhiking across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “HitchBOT”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Michael Barker, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.