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Girl in Germany dies after family dog bites her

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 9, 2026

A four-year-old girl has died after being bitten by her family’s pet dog while playing, police and prosecutors in the eastern German state…

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Berlin court sentences ‘serial killer’ doctor to life in prison for 15 murders

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 8, 2026

A German palliative care doctor was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for murdering 15 people with lethal doses of sedatives, and he…

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Are the US’ AI models better than China’s? That may be beside the point

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 8, 2026

As another heatwave rolled across Europe, the warehouses emptied before the politics could catch up. Air conditioners and fans sold out acr…

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Manipulation

IEEE Honors Robotics Pioneer Toshio Fukuda

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 7, 2026

Toshio Fukuda has been blazing trails for most of his career. He is considered to be one of the most prolific scholars in robotics, writing…

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Humanoid

#RoboCup2026 – humanoid league knockout stages

Robohub·Jul 6, 2026

This weekend saw the finale of the league competitions at RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, South Korea, with the winners in the small, middle, and…

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Research

‘We won’t tolerate this’: thousands in Germany protest against far-right AfD

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 4, 2026

Thousands of opponents of Germany’s far-right AfD took to the streets of Erfurt on Saturday and blocked roads to the party’s annual confere…

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Humanoid

Video Friday: An Earthbound Mars Rover for the Moon

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 3, 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…

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Heatwave grips Eastern Europe after Germany weather breaks records

South China Morning Post Tech·Jun 29, 2026

The deadly heatwave that’s set temperature records across western Europe for more than a week has shifted east to scorch Hungary, Romania a…

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German doctor admits to killing 12 patients in high-profile trial

South China Morning Post Tech·Jun 25, 2026

A German doctor admitted to having killed 12 patients nearly a year since the start of his high-profile trial at the Berlin Regional Court…

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Trains halted across Germany over communications failure

South China Morning Post Tech·Jun 23, 2026

A problem with a communications system forced Germany’s railway network to halt all trains late Tuesday, leaving passengers stranded across…

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Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.

MIT Technology Review·Jun 16, 2026

At the end of a tense and scoreless first half of a soccer match between the English men’s team and rival Germany, millions of Brits let ou…

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Manipulation

Festo launches lightweight pneumatic gripper and tests GripperAI

The Robot Report·Jun 3, 2026

Festo has released a compact cobot gripper, and its robot-agnostic GripperAI enables grasping of objects without prior training. The post F…

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Medical

Paediatrician in Germany charged with sex offences in 130 cases

South China Morning Post Tech·May 13, 2026

A paediatrician at a hospital near Berlin has been charged with sex offences in 130 cases, many of which are said to have taken place at th…

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Startup

Germany’s Merz says no ‘immediate’ Ukraine EU membership, floats Kyiv joining meetings

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 24, 2026

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday there was no prospect of Ukraine’s “immediate accession” to the EU, but suggested Kyiv coul…

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German man accused of live streaming child abuse in the Philippines

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 24, 2026

German prosecutors have charged a 46-year-old man on suspicion of serious sexual abuse of children via live streaming. The man, from the di…

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Cobot

German court rules in favor of Teradyne Robotics, issues injunction against Elite Robots

The Robot Report·Apr 21, 2026

Teradyne has obtained an injunction from a German court as it pursues a claim against Elite Robots for copying its UR cobot software. The p…

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