Hitchhiker Robot Experiment to Test Human Kindness

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'Hitchbot' is the name of a location-tweeting, fact-telling, non-ambulatory robot that its makers plan to send on a cross-continental hiking trip across Canada. Why? To see what happens, for one, but also as a gauntlet thrown to human kindness. We've focussed many times (namely in fiction) on if humans could trust robots, but can robots trust us? Kim Horcher, Tim Frisch, and Brett Erlich (Poptrigger, Viral Video Film School, Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Declassified) discuss!

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