RoboticsMedium
Robot Destroyed while Hitchhiking through the United States
- Occurred
- Aug 1, 2015
- Published
- Aug 3, 2015
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A non-actuated conversational robot that previously asked people to move it across Canada was destroyed shortly after beginning its attempt to replicate the journey across the United States.
Developers
- Frauke Zeller
- David Harris
Deployers
- Frauke Zeller
- David Harris
Harmed parties
- Frauke Zeller
- David Harris
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves a physical robot being destroyed during travel, fitting robotics category with limited harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8