Hitchbot's decapitators avoided capture by the hitchhiking android's cameras

'We have no interest in pressing charges or finding the people' says the robot's co-creator after Hitchbot met its demise (ironically) in the City of Brotherly Love

The person or people who decapitated a hitchhiking robot in Philadelphia narrowly escaped having their pictures captured by the android, its co-creator told the Guardian on Monday.

Hitchbot, which was attempting to travel from the east coast of the US to the west coast after setting off from Massachusetts on 17 July, was set upon on Saturday morning and shall hitchhike no more.