Robots of Canada

thumb|Dextre on the end of Canadarm2 thumb|Dextre, as photographed by an Expedition 26 crew member right|thumb|Dextre, as photographed by an Expedition 27 crew member

robotic system on board the International Space Station

hitchBOT was a Canadian hitchhiking robot created by professors David Harris Smith of McMaster University and Frauke Zeller of Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson University) in 2013. It gained international attention for successfully hitchhiking across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands. In 2015, its attempt to hitchhike across the United States ended when it was stripped, dismembered, and decapitated in Philadelphia.