The anthropomorphic robot named hitchBOT sits on the shoulder of Highway 102 to begin its 6,000-kilometre cross country journey outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The hitch-hiking robot is part of a social experiment to see if drivers will pick up and drop off the robot in one piece to an art gallery in Victoria, British Columbia.

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