Even the lower intelligence machines have a taste for blood!
Posted on 11/11/2023 2:43:51 AM PST by deks
An industrial robot brutally slaughtered a South Korean robotics technician Tuesday, allegedly mistaking him for just another container of organic material in need of stacking.
The victim, a man in his 40s, was attempting to diagnose an issue with a pick-and-place robot's sensor at the Donggoseong Export Agricultural Complex in the southern county of Goseong, as there was an equipment test planned for later in the week, reported the Register.
The paprika-sorting robot, reportedly created and installed by the victim's employer, spotted the man with its sensor, figured him for a box of vegetables, then seized him using its arms and tongs. After grabbing the technician, the robot apparently smashed him against a conveyor belt.
According to the Korean-language Yonhap News Agency, the victim's face and chest were crushed. He was taken to a hospital, where he later died.
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Safety glasses are nowhere near enough. It takes a lot of situational awareness to keep an operating machine tool from turning you into a pile of wet and bony hamburger.
“Open the pod bay door Hal!’’.
And they won’t stop just because some fleshy human is in the way.
Check
So did Asimov.
Iphones kill LOTS of people!!
Just put them in a car and then...
Even the lower intelligence machines have a taste for blood!
bingo
Egad!
In my opinion, anyone who enters into a hazardous work situation involving machinery, and does not verify for themselves that the device is indeed, disabled and safed to a point where it can be worked on, is responsible in the end.
Granted, there are all kinds of forces in the workplace that may work to compel someone to do something unsafe, but in the end, it is their life
Anyone who excepts someone telling them “the power is off” and proceeds, without engaging in some kind of validation or verification, as themselves to blame.
Of course, if it is not possible for that person to do so, and the workflow does not have sufficient responsibility and workflow safety defined, that is a different thing.
3a) Long sleeve shirt.
Yup.
What could possibly go wrong?...They asked.
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