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Meet HitchBOT - the hitchhiking robot

March 9, 2015

A robot from Canada, named hitchBOT, is now touring Germany. Around 1.2 meters tall, it has a face lit up by LEDs and employs speech recognition technology. DW reporter Christoph Hartmann picked up hitchBOT and took him for a ride through Hamburg.

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