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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/77_mec on 2025-03-25 02:44:36+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that there was a robot hitchhiker that successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands. It then attempted to do so in the United States from Boston to San Francisco and was mercilessly beaten to death and decapitated in Philadelphia within two weeks of having started.