HitchBOT

[JR8]

Not sure if it was art, and/or a social experiment; a 'robot' that went hitch-hiking across Canada, the US, and Europe before meeting it's demise in Philadelphia.

Outline:
http://cnn.it/1hfFN6k
'HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, gets beheaded in Philadelphia'

Critique:
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/hitchb ... 1721850503
'HitchBOT Was A Literal Pile Of Trash And Got What It Deserved'

[Some amusing USA vs Canada humour in the latter link ]

[ecureilx]

Not sure if it was art, and/or a social experiment; a 'robot' that went hitch-hiking across Canada, the US, and Europe before meeting it's demise in Philadelphia.

Outline:
http://cnn.it/1hfFN6k
'HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, gets beheaded in Philadelphia'

Critique:
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/hitchb ... 1721850503
'HitchBOT Was A Literal Pile Of Trash And Got What It Deserved'

[Some amusing USA vs Canada humour in the latter link ]

:P

Luckily nobody shot the 'bot...

[bgd]

My mum always said never hitch alone.

[the lynx]

I've been struggling to find out the purpose of this experiment (well the team is from a university, so it has to be, right?). Went to the official site, plenty of crap on the "family members" and "adventures" but nothing - NOTHING on the objective of the experiment. I'd be able to emphatise if I understand what they are doing...

[ecureilx]

I've been struggling to find out the purpose of this experiment (well the team is from a university, so it has to be, right?). Went to the official site, plenty of crap on the "family members" and "adventures" but nothing - NOTHING on the objective of the experiment. I'd be able to emphatise if I understand what they are doing...

It kept a few kids interested in the bot .. that's good reason enough I guess ..

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/whoever- ... 1722226588

[JR8]

I've been struggling to find out the purpose of this experiment (well the team is from a university, so it has to be, right?). Went to the official site, plenty of crap on the "family members" and "adventures" but nothing - NOTHING on the objective of the experiment. I'd be able to emphatise if I understand what they are doing...

Karl Poppers 'scientific method' requires one to assume no outcome, no answer... to proceed without assumptions. I wonder how such truly objective-free, arguably random, research would progress and succeed. Er, anyway, perhaps I digress.

Perhaps it is like a clinical psychology test, where the answer is found within how people respond to the proposition, rather than questioning the nature of the proposition itself? Does one have to understand a proposition to sufficiently (as opposed to 'correctly') answer it, I don't think so? If I say 1+1=3, it's (arguably) incorrect, but it's still an answer and has validity as such