A talking robot is hitchhiking west from Victoria , Nova Scotia , to Toronto , Halifax . `` We taught hitchBOT to say that sometimes it gets a bit carried away , and that its programmers could only write that many scripts , hoping for people to be patient . '' Called hitchBOT , it uses artificial intelligence and speech software to communicate . It relies on human drivers to ferry it from place to place . As of last Monday the robot had reached Halifax .
A talking robot is hitchhiking west from Victoria , Nova Scotia , to Toronto , Halifax . Called hitchBOT , it uses artificial intelligence and speech software to communicate . It relies on human drivers to ferry it from place to place . As of last Monday the robot had reached Halifax .