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KELOWNA, B.C. — The chatty, social-media-savvy robot that’s been thumbing rides with Canadians over the past three weeks is nearing the end of its Halifax-to-Victoria hitchhiking adventure.

Its creators say the last time it checked in, early Wednesday morning, HitchBOT was passing through Kelowna, B.C., on its way to the Open Space art centre on Vancouver Island.

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“We were expecting the unexpected,” said the robot’s co-creator David Smith, who teaches in the department of communication studies at McMaster University in Hamilton. “But there’s no way that we could have expected the number of really memorable and significant events that Hitchbot participated in.”

Since its more than 6,000-kilometre journey began in Nova Scotia on July 26, the Wellie-wearing robot has been camping in New Brunswick’s Kouchibouguac National Park, attended a First Nations powwow on Manitoulin Island in Ontario and even crashed a wedding in Golden, B.C.