if the US had a nationwide fleet of robots that patrolled the streets to pick up litter and occasionally danced to entertain people, how many do you think would get punched every year? do you personally know and love someone who could potentially be a rob

It would depend on the appearance of the robot. There was a thing where a robot managed to hitchhike quite a long way without being harmed: >hitchBOT was a Canadian "hitchhiking robot" created by David Harris Smith of McMaster University and Frauke Zeller of Ryerson University. It gained international attention for successfully hitchhiking across Canada and in Europe, but in 2015 an attempt to hitchhike across the United States ended shortly after it began when the robot was destroyed by vandals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.