The robotic arm reportedly failed to distinguish between the man and the boxes it was handling.

A man has been crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentiate him from the boxes of food it was handling, reports say.

  • Bloody HarryEnglish
    10•1 year ago

    Remember kids: LOTOTO

    1. Lock out
    2. Take out
    3. Test out

    For every machine/mechanical appliance you are going to be touching in a way not intended to

    • @orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      Safety procedures are written in blood. There’s a reason they exist and it’s not just because someone felt like it. If there can be any good to come out of this tragedy, hopefully it’s more respect for proper safety procedures around industrial machinery. This honestly wasn’t even one of the crazy ones where like 2 or 3 different safety systems needed to fail on top of a couple different instances of human error in order for the tragedy to occur, it was simple disrespect for the power of industrial machinery.