阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。Hitchbot
Have you ever seen a hitchhiker(搭便车的旅行者）standing by the side of a road? Now drivers in Canada might see{#blank#}1{#/blank#}unusual hitchhiker; a hitchhiking robot.
One of its inventors, David Harris Smith, has hitched across Canada three times. Smith and a friend, Frauke Zeller, have built Hitchbot because they wanted{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(see) if people would stop and give the robot a lift and talk to it. The robot can chat about things it has learned, and about{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(it) trip. You might think it's a joke,{#blank#}4{#/blank#}Smith and Zeller's experiment has a serious point: can robots and people get along?
Hitchbot{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(begin) its journey in Nova Scotia in July. It has already completed a third of its 6,000-mile trip to Victoria. More than 57,000 people are following its journey{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(close) on Facebook and Twitter, and travelers have posted lots of{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(photo) on the websites. Hitchbot has also done some shopping, eaten motor oil, and had fun with travelers. Nobody knows{#blank#}8{#/blank#}it will finish its journey. It might be{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(long) than expected, but Zeller and Smith want Hitch to get{#blank#}10{#/blank#}many rides as it can. It hasn't been in a self-driving car yet, but anything is possible!
