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HitchBOT, who was created as part of a social experiment to see whether robots can trust humans, had spent weeks successfully hitchhiking his way from town to town. The hitchBOT team noted they would not publish the final photo of the vandalized robot in order to protect the...

The robot’s adventure came to a premature end upon reaching Philadelphia on Saturday, when someone beheaded hitchBOT and removed all its electronics.

The robot was immobile and relies exclusively on kindness of strangers who were generous enough to give him a lift.

HitchBOT had access to a range of trivia within its memory, and its speech recognition software allowed for limited conversations with travelling companions.