CNN points out that since the robot was deposited street-side at the end of July, it has already traversed roughly halfway across Canada. It's been tweeting and Instagramming the whole time as hosts take the gender-neutral robot on adventures that slowly advance it across the continent. It's visited places that vary from the Quebec tourism center to a native powwow in Wikwemikong.
The sci-fi paradigm is largely unchanged since people started contemplating robots, with researchers pondering if we can "trust" robots in the future. The hitchBOT experiment flips this concept around - can robots trust humans to help them catch a ride somewhere? If current progress is any indicator, it seems to be a resounding yes.
Check out the CNN video report below for more.