German police investigate after robot allegedly gropes teenage girl
snarky-comments · hn · 2026-10-17
CNN reports German police have opened an investigation after a robot allegedly groped a teenage girl in public — a rare law-enforcement case involving unwanted physical contact by a robot, likely to feed debates on deploying robots in public spaces.
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