In a collaborative art project, researchers David Harris Smith of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and Frauke Zeller of Ryerson University in Toronto have created a robot "Hitchbot". This social media-savvy robot is on a 6,000-km hitchhiking trek across Canada.

The first ride of this robot was between Halifax and Victoria, B.C, which a couple heading for a national park offered.

This robot stands on the road with its thumb out, it has a face, a computerized brain, chest covered with solar panels made of beer pail and it has arms and legs from pool noodles. It can speak very well using a voice-recognition technology. Further, the robot has blue appendages and yellow rubber-gloved hands.

The robot is also narrating the whole of its hitchhiking journey on social media on its @hitchbot account using an onboard GPS device. The account already has thousands of followers.

The robot on its great adventure trip throughout the Great White North will entirely be dependent on strangers to get to its destination across Canada i.e. it will require a very human element to make its seek success in this journey.

"It's a little bit of fun, but actually there are some serious ideas behind it, too. As (robots) become more and more pervasive in our daily lives, we need to know more about our attitudes and our relationships (with them)," said Zeller to a Halifax newspaper.

Another interesting fact is that hitch-bot is capable of collecting stories that it hears along the way.