Overview

• The shop owner, 53, received a notification on October 3 that the robot had become stuck and then went offline, prompting a review of surveillance footage.
• Video showed the device leaving the deli and rolling onto Segringer Straße before a passerby picked it up.
• Police identified the passerby as a 32-year-old who switched off the robot and said he planned to hand it to the lost-and-found on the next working day.
• Officers retrieved the robotic vacuum and returned it to its rightful owner with no charges reported.
• Authorities reminded residents to turn found property in to the local lost-and-found or to police outside office hours.