RIP hitchBOT

hitchBOT
Last evening, as I sat down to work on the post I had intended to write for today, the Mysterious Mr. C delivered some terrible news: hitchBOT, the adorable hitchhiking robot from Canada that I featured in Saturday’s “Nerd Alert” had been damaged beyond repair by some guy in Philadelphia. (In fact, now that video of the attack has surfaced, it appears that the poor little guy met his demise before I even posted about him. [And no, I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it.]) Read More