Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast this

week coming to you live from Birmingham!

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anich Zinski, Andrew Hunter Murray and James

Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts

from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go starting with fact number

one and that is James.

Okay my fact this week is that Hitch bot was a robot invented to see how far humankind

this would take a mechanical hitchhiker.

In 2015 he was left on the side of the road in Boston and was found dismembered in a ditch

17 days later.

Yeah and found in Philadelphia which is a city of brotherly love.

I read a headland about it we just said innocent hitchhiking robot murdered by America.

And there's CCTV footage isn't there they don't know who the guy is but he was wearing a

backwards baseball cap they saw him starting to beat the robot he then rips the arm off the robot

and he beats the robot with the arm I mean it's a proper savaging.

Yeah so actually there was a few of these robots made it started in 2014 and it was by a guy

called David Harris Smith of master university and Froke-Kazella of Ryerson University and the

early ones had gone through Canada, Germany and the Netherlands with no problems at all they

gone and seen some amazing things but yeah this guy they left him off the side of the road in

Boston and it did not end well.

Yeah the Canadian Avengers were amazing well just it I mean for a start the thing itself was

made really cheap it was made for less than a thousand dollars so it was not a very good robot

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