Spy cockroaches and AI robots: Germany plots the future of warfare

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By Supantha Mukherjee, Sarah Marsh and Christoph Steitz

MUNICH/BERLIN/FRANKFURT, July 23 (Reuters) – For Gundbert Scherf – the co-founder of Germany’s Helsing, Europe’s most valuable defence start-up – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed everything.

Scherf had to fight hard to attract investment after…