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There’s Nothing Mysterious or Unusual About the Viral German Sexual Harassment Robot

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Let’s briefly deconstruct a viral or soon to be viral story out of Cologne, Germany regarding an incident in which a “remotely controlled robot grabs 16-year-old's buttocks” and “performed thrusting…

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