Hitchhiking Robot Takes a Tour Across Canada

A social experiment to see if robots can trust humans is following a talking robot assembled from household odds and ends that is hitchhiking thousands of kilometers across Canada. Society is "usually concerned with whether we can trust robots," Frauke Zeller, co-creator of the "hitchBot," told AFP. Hollywood movies like "The Terminator" and "The Matrix" often depict machines as enemies of mankind, according to the assistant professor at Toronto's Ryerson ...