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Andreas Bovenschulte (front, SPD), Mayor of Bremen, sits next to a robot named Charlie at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Bremen. Behind him are Tim Cordßen-Ryglewski (l-r), State Councillor at the Bremen Senator for Science and Ports, Frank Kirchner, Managing Director at DFKI, and Rolf Drechsler, Head of the Cyber-Physical Systems research department.