{"id":8567,"date":"2015-07-16T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2015-07-16T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T15:59:00","slug":"hitchbot-the-hitchhiking-robot-is-going-on-a-big-usa-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2015\/07\/16\/hitchbot-the-hitchhiking-robot-is-going-on-a-big-usa-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"hitchBOT the Hitchhiking Robot is Going on a Big USA Road Trip!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On July 17th, 2015,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitchbot.me\/usa\/\">hitchBOT<\/a>\u00a0&#8212;the &#8220;free-spirited&#8221; hitchhiking robot from Canada&#8211; leaves for a road trip across the United States!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitchbot.me\/usa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8571\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hitchBOT.jpg\" alt=\"hitchBOT\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hitchBOT.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hitchBOT-427x640.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>Leaving from the <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/q3wFzF\" target=\"_blank\">Peabody Essex Museum<\/a>\u00a0in Salem, Massachusetts, hitchBOT will travel cross country to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exploratorium<\/a> in San Francisco, California.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Partially made of a real bucket, it&#8217;s only appropriate that hitchBOT has\u00a0its own BUCKET LIST!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitchbot.me\/usa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"829\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8577\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hitchBOT1.jpg\" alt=\"hitchBOT\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hitchBOT1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hitchBOT1-494x640.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>Watch hitchBOT&#8217;s video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/132664186?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes! This robot can speak with humans (thanks to Cleverscript speech technology)!! It can answer all kinds of questions!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitchbot.me\/usa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8586\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hitchBOT-on-a-motorcycle.jpg\" alt=\"hitchBOT on a motorcycle\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nhitchBOT is the creation of Canadian professors Dr. David Harris Smith and Dr. Frauke Zeller.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a robot, I enjoy listening to electronic music. I currently have Mr. Roboto on repeat but the Blueman Group and Kraftwerk are also amazing. I also enjoy reading a lot of books, especially about philosophy and astrophysics \u2013 I guess that is what happens when a robot is influenced by both the sciences and humanities.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, I am a free-spirited robot who wants to explore the world and meet new friends along the way. I am an avid instagrammer and tweeter. On my downtime, I can appreciate a good game of trivia and would never pass up any opportunities to bake desserts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitchbot.me\/usa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8572\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hitchBOT-face.jpg\" alt=\"hitchBOT face\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>Be sure to follow hitchBOT on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hitchbot\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hitchbot\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/hitchbot\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>!! The hashtag to follow is #<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23hitchBOTinUSA&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\">hitchBOTinUSA<\/a>!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1SjtKjF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"419\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8583\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pee-wee-hitchhiking-texas-sign-1.gif\" alt=\"Pee-wee's Big Adventure\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nBON VOYAGE, hitchBOT!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 17th, 2015,\u00a0hitchBOT\u00a0&#8212;the &#8220;free-spirited&#8221; hitchhiking robot from Canada&#8211; leaves for a road trip across the United States!! Leaving from the Peabody Essex Museum\u00a0in Salem, Massachusetts, hitchBOT will travel cross country to the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California.\u00a0 Partially made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesome","category-cool","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8593,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions\/8593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}