Unidec President Offers To Resurrect hitchBOT
A spark of new life has emerged concerning the lifeless body of the hitchhiking robot beheaded at the hands of Philadelphia vandals, and it’s coming from Chester County.
Local resident and Unidec President John Fisher has offered for free the services of his Newtown Square electronic repair shop to fix the Canadian-born hitchBOT and send it back on its cross-country journey to San Francisco.
“From my point of view, we’re already in a bad light overseas,” Fisher said in a Daily Local News report. “We don’t want people in Canada thinking we’re monsters. We need to turn this around any way we can. We feel bad; we’re from the area.”
Fisher claims his company has the parts, tools and knowledge to resurrect the robot, but its creators have already publicly canceled the 2015 adventure and haven’t yet decided on any repair attempt.
The robot has previously hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, and it was just two weeks into its American endeavor, which sought to converse with strangers and visit numerous American historic and cultural attractions, photographing and videoing its encounters along the way.
“I hate to see it leave Philly murdered,” Fisher said in the article. “I’m hoping to fix it and send it on its way.”
Read more about hitchBOT’s demise and fate in the Daily Local News here.
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