Posted on 12/26/2023 11:46:37 AM PST by Red Badger
A hell of a time for a recursive function call.
Lockout-Tagout basics.
“A third one, which grabbed and moved the car parts, was inadvertently left operational, according to two people who watched it happen.”
Idiots.
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“Two of the robots, which cut car parts from freshly cast pieces of aluminum, were disabled so the engineer and his teammates could safely work on the machines. A third one, which grabbed and moved the car parts, was inadvertently left operational, according to two people who watched it happen. As that robot ran through its normal motions, it pinned the engineer against a surface, pushing its claws into his body and drawing blood from his back and his arm, the two people said,” The Information reported.Also, I believe it happened a couple of years ago.
Does media call them unidentified teen robots?
There obviously needs to be a safety stop in the software to cover this situation where there is no ‘metal’ to be worked upon..............
Ignore the tagout rules at your peril.
Union Robot, non Union worker, whadda ya expect?
And so it begins.....
The metal in this case is aluminum, to magnetics is out
Adding sensors would be like adding a sensor to a hammer so you don’t smash your fingers. It would be expensive, add zero value and provide an additional source of failure
Using Lock out/ Tag out as a BASIC means of operation would have prevented this. A Robot that grabs fresh cast aluminum weighing 100-1500 lbs doesn’t know or care if that piece is flesh, plastic or metal. It will do what it’s coded to do. This seems like a basic safety issue
Assembly robots in car plants date back dozens of years, and always have automated machines in a cage. Maybe Elon could learn something from history. On the other hand, if this is a more than a year between incidents, maybe he got it right by freeing up his robots.
Aspiring rapper turning his life around.
My niece’s husband had a long time lucrative job working at an oil refinery. But he was a big fan of Elon Musk and Tesla products, so he quit his job and moved the family to Nevada to work at their big factory near Reno.
It didn’t work out. I once went into the details about this and was brutally attacked by our resident Tesla fan boys and girls... so I am not going to bother today. But not all is wine and roses for workers in Tesla factories.
I would stay away from those Bots because they walk like Biden.
The robot didn't malfunction. The humans screwed up on lockout/tagout.
From the article:
“This underreporting, the attorney said, even included the September 28, 2021 death of a construction worker, who had been contracted to help build the factory itself.”
OSHA reports are completed by the EMPLOYER regarding THEIR EMPLOYEES. A contract construction worker’s injury or death will not appear on Tesla’s OSHA reports, it will appear on the construction company’s OSHA reports. This article loses all credibility if that’s the example they want to use for Tesla underreporting their work related injuries.
Disclaimer: I don’t give a crap about Tesla. Bad reporting irritates me.
Indeed.
LOTO!
Kill one, the rest learn . . .
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