German police confiscate humanoid robot involved in case: two teenagers under investigation for allegedly using the robot to livestream…

German police confiscate humanoid robot involved in case: two teenagers under investigation for allegedly using the robot to livestream harassment of a girl

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Police in Cologne, Germany officially confiscated and investigated a rare case of public harassment involving a humanoid robot on October 13.

The suspects in the case are two teenagers aged 16 and 19 respectively, who are accused of using a walking humanoid robot about 1.2 meters tall and wearing accessories in a public place to sexually assault and bump-harass a 16-year-old girl, and of publicly livestreaming the entire harassment process online.

Cologne authorities said this is the first case in the area of using a robot to commit public harassment, and investigators are currently focusing on assessing whether the robot was pre-programmed or controlled in real time by the suspects on site. The incident exposes unknown blind spots in technical standards and new legal regulation as humanoid robots accelerate their move into public life.

This article comes from the AIbase Daily

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