Posted on 07/02/2015 7:44:05 AM PDT by palmer
A technician died from injuries sustained while working on a robot at Volkswagen's factory in Kessel, Germany, according to media reports.
The reports indicated that two men, who worked for an outside contractor, were installing the robot when the mechanism struck one of them in the chest and pressed him against a metal plate.
The 21-year-old man, who was working within the metal safety cage confining the robot, later died from the accident.
His co-worker was outside the metal cage and unharmed. Prosecutors are investigating the incident.
Volkswagen officials said that the robot did not have a technical defect and that it was not one of the company's new lightweight robots that aid workers on production lines.
Sarah is kind of cute.
“DON’T TOUCH MY JUNK.”
Sometimes we were making adjustments. Other times I needed to take a wire brush and scrub the paint build up off the tip. Sometimes I was just painting extra parts on the line. Other times I was just watching them paint.
Wir Sind die Roboter.
the humans are dead... the humans are dead... we used poisonous gasses... and we poisoned their arses...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY
yeah....I was kidding.
So it was designed to kill?
Lock Out, Tag Out.
Stuff like this should NEVER happen. Plain stupidity got that guy killed.
Is this some publicity stunt for the new Terminator movie?
Typical paint robot doing its thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMuXraKeS-c
It doesn’t need breaks, doesn’t take vacations, sick leave, or personal time. It doesn’t go on strike or sue for carpel tunnel syndrome. It doesn’t argue with the boss or other employees.
This will help bring about the Butlerian Jihad. We must control the spice.
A summer before leaving for college I worked second shift at a Ford Motor Co. metal stamping plant. There was a large posted sign with a number showing the consecutive days without accident. When I started the number was around 60 or so and for awhile it kept going up one digit each day.
Then one afternoon I walked onto the shop floor and the number was set at 0. I asked what had happened and was told that during the overnight, third, shift a fellow had started working on the die in a 100 ton press and forgot to put in the safety girders. The machine cycled and he was turned into a flat wet blot.
I'm pretty sure the robot in this story from Germany was powered up when it was supposed to be powered down for service, or the fellows working on it did something else contrary to safety guidelines. Machines remain just machines, despite how sophisticated they are.
That’s bunk, I was waiting for the robot and human to fight!
beat me to it.
HILLARIOUS.
Obviously she doesn’t realize that her name is close to the main female character in terminator...
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