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Robot Kills Technician At German VW Plant
Manufacturing.net ^ | Wed, 07/01/2015 - 5:08pm | Andy Szal, Digital Reporter

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Germany
KEYWORDS: robotuprising; terminator
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To: WakeUpAndVote

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81 posted on 07/02/2015 9:32:12 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: cripplecreek

At one time I routinely worked on a large robot, frequently getting in the cage with it running. Had to do a sort of dance to avoid getting hit by it. One day it crashed into a welding machine, destroying it’s end-effector and shredding part of the welding machine. I thought ‘wow I’m glad that wasn’t my face.’


82 posted on 07/02/2015 9:33:51 AM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: palmer

The guy was hitting on the robot and it killed him in a huma-phobic rage.


83 posted on 07/02/2015 9:43:56 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: Buttons12

So it killed the guy on purpose?


84 posted on 07/02/2015 9:44:33 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: loungitude

Respect it like you would respect a gun and you’ll be just fine.


85 posted on 07/02/2015 9:44:34 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Titanium-supremacists?


86 posted on 07/02/2015 9:46:36 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: WayneS

White (metal) supremacists.


87 posted on 07/02/2015 9:47:22 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: cripplecreek

You left out: “It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”


88 posted on 07/02/2015 9:50:38 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: Boogieman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4EMmvP8rWo

Down in the Park - Gary Numan

Down in the park where the machmen meet
The machines are playing ‘Kill-by-numbers’
Down in the park with a friend called ‘Five’

I was in a car crash or was it the war?
Well, I’ve never been quite the same
Little white lies like I was there

Come to Zom-Zom’s, a place to eat
Like it was built in one day
You can watch the humans try to run

Oh, look, there’s a rape machine
I’d go outside if it looks the other way
You wouldn’t believe the things they do

Down in the park where the chant is death, death, death
Until’ the sun cries mornin’
Down in the park with friends of mine

We are not lovers, we are not romantics
We are here to serve you
A different face but the words never change

Songwriters
WEBB, GARY ANTHONY JAMES

Read more: Gary Numan - Down In The Park Lyrics | MetroLyrics


89 posted on 07/02/2015 9:52:34 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: palmer

about three weeks ago at the Toyota plant in Georgetown Kentucky a worker lost an arm to a machine there and the plant has done its best to cover it up.


90 posted on 07/02/2015 10:41:21 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: WayneS

Meaning, they’d admit to anything except a design flaw.


91 posted on 07/02/2015 10:46:53 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: cripplecreek

Lockout-tagout?


92 posted on 07/02/2015 10:54:40 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Snickering Hound
Gadzooks-- first gay marriage, then the Confederate Battle Flag... now me--

Well, if we are going to do this, let us do it... right--

Do it... right--

Do it... right!

Now, isn't that better... y'all?

93 posted on 07/02/2015 6:35:29 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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