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Researchers tortured robots to test the limits of human empathy

In 2015, a jovial three-foot-tall robot with pool noodles for arms set out on what seemed like a simple mission. Using the kindness of strangers, this machine, called "hitchBOT" would spend months hitchhiking across the continental United States. It made it just 300 miles. Two weeks into the road trip, HitchBOT was found abandoned in the streets of Philadelphia, its head severed and spaghetti arms ripped from its bucket-shaped body. "It was quite a setback, and we didn't really expect it," hitchBOT co-creator Frauke Zeller told CNN at the time.

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