FULL CIRCLE: Members of the development team of Hitchbot (l-r) David Smith, Frauke Zeller, and developer Colin Gagich posing for a photo with Hitchbot in Canada.
OTTAWA: A chatty robot with an LED-lit smiley face sent hitchhiking across Canada this summer as part of a social experiment reached its final destination Thursday after several thousand kilometres on the road.
HitchBot, assembled from household odds and ends by university professors Frauke Zeller and David Smith, was to reunite with its creators at an art gallery in Victoria, British Columbia having crossed more than 6,000km (3,700 miles).
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