Philly: No Brotherly Love for Robots

erco · 2015-08-04 11:30

Hitchbot vandalized in the "City of Brotherly Love": http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/friendly-hitchhiking-robot-destroyed-in-philadelphia-two-weeks-into-a-cross-country-journey-181034624.html

Keith Young · 2015-08-04 14:58

It made it across Europe and Canada and was quickly destroyed in America...

I found myself shaking my head while face palming.

Whit · 2015-08-04 19:01

Sad, sad, sad... I wanted Hitchbot to come to Louisiana!

xanadu · 2015-08-04 20:12

Brutal, where's Robocop when you need him?

Ttailspin · 2015-08-04 20:50

Grogg not understand Robot! Grogg not like Robot! Grogg want smash Robot!.

Maybe Hitchbot said something that the guy didn't like hearing?, Can we get audio recording?

Do you think that guy went to the library to read a book after he was done smashing? Nah, me neither...

-Tommy

prof_braino · 2015-08-05 01:04

Keith Young wrote: »

It made it across Europe and Canada and was quickly destroyed in America...
.

Didn't the same thing happen to Democracy?

Heater. · 2015-08-05 16:23

But there is lot's of brotherly love for the hitchbot.
http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2015/08/we-can-rebuild-him-philadelphia-hackers-offer-brotherly-love-to-fallen-robot/

They can rebuild him!

@prof_braino,

Didn't the same thing happen to Democracy?

Yes, also the hamburger.

erco · 2015-08-06 01:54

The recently-added 4th robotic law.

erco · 2015-08-14 04:06

They just keep coming...

cruXible · 2015-08-15 00:27

So, now we know who Skynet's first target will be.

erco · 2015-08-19 17:17

There's a part of me that would include an impact-triggered alarm (or booby trap

) in Hitchbot 2.

erco · 2016-03-06 21:02

I just saw on poor Hitchbot's Facebook page that the security video of it being destroyed was faked. Some well-known Philly pranksters were involved: http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/15741/hitchbot-last-days/?fb=dd

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NWCCTV · 2016-03-07 01:36

I have been to Philly and this is no surprise at all.

erco · 2016-03-07 02:20

NWCCTV wrote: »

I have been to Philly and this is no surprise at all.

The city of brotherly love! I can't be the only one here who remembers when Mayor Wilson Goode (?) BOMBED A RESIDENTIAL ZONE in 1985.

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/14/us/police-drop-bomb-on-radicals-home-in-philadelphia.html?pagewanted=all

Philly: No Brotherly Love for Robots

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