So you are driving along when you see a robot standing on the side of the road...hitchhiking... That is precisely what happened to a number of people in Canada recently when hitchBOT, a preschooler-sized robot made of a beer cooler, a cake keeper, rubber gloves and blue foam tubing. The robot, designed by communications professors Frauke Zeller of Ryerson University and David Harris Smith of McMaster University, was designed to explore the interaction between humans and robots.
Read the entire story from the Los Angeles Times here.
