Posted on 07/02/2015 9:39:44 AM PDT by grundle
A robot has killed a man at a Volkswagen car factory in Germany.
The 22-year-old worker died from injuries he sustained when he was trapped by a robotic arm and crushed against a metal plate.
The man, who has not been named, was part of a team that was setting up the automated machinery at the factory in Kassel, north of Frankfurt, according to Volkswagen.
The robot in question is a mechanical arm that moves car parts into place, said Heiko Hillwig, a spokesman for the company.
It is part of an automated assembly line that is capable of functioning without a human operator, but it is believed it may have been under human control at the time of the accident.
Mr Hillwig said he could not provide any further details as the case is now under police investigation.
Initial reports suggested human error may have been to blame, rather than a problem with the machine.
But the state prosecutor’s office in Kassel said that had not yet been confirmed.
“We have begun an investigation to find out exactly what happened and to determine whether anybody was at fault,” said Dr Götz Wied, a spokesman.
The contractor is believed to have died from injuries caused when his chest was crushed by the robot arm. He was rushed to hospital but doctors were unable to save him.
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OMG!!!!!!!!
An SUV robot?????????
This is the British policy, and it seems to be working fine so far... /sarc
Robotic Teutonic transgendered gotterdammerung?
Obviously lock out procedures were not followed.........
Back in the 90's the stamping plant I worked in, we had an electrician who was crushed by an overhead crane when he was working on a control box high up on a wall in our press shop. He failed to lock out the crane and the crane operator couldn't see him up on the ladder as the operator was moving a pallet of steel......
Skynet has become sentient....
Soon humans will be locked out of the Volkswagen plant altogether.
And it’s not even 2029.
Lock out, Tag out.
in the eighties
Meet RoboSimian, NASA JPL’s Ape-Like Robot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XpjVlGn6_o
Must have been a short circuit. ;)
Man bites robot, now that’s news.
The robot refused to take a drug test, and called his union rep.
“Lock out, Tag out.”
Yep, dats da one.
Sad, but making it worse- a volkswagen plant? Not the factory that makes somethong cool like the Ferrari, a jet fighter, or explosives... no, the place that makes the 82 horsepower vw crapmobile. Sad...
“We believe it was human error” Pfft, that’s exactly what the machines want you to think. It has begun people......
If it’s going to happen, it’s most likely to happen during the setup and tweaking stages. Damned shame.
This has happened before, and it will happen again...again...again...
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