Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him — Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant::Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant

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    ROTM A man in his 40s was crushed to death by a robot at a produce-sorting facility in South Korea Tuesday after the machine apparently mistook him for a box of vegetables.

    According to Korean media, the technician was diagnosing a problem with the robot’s sensor package at the Donggoseong Export Agricultural Complex, ahead of a planned test run of the equipment Wednesday.

    The South Gyeongsang province plant has been using this robot to move food packages onto pallets for about five years, and it has come in extra handy when there’s been a shortage of manpower, we’re told.

    The Korean-language Yonhap News Agency report, through machine translation, talks of the 'bot normally handling boxes of paprika; Western media is taking that to mean bell peppers seeing as it’s a produce-sorting facility.

    An official at the complex told reporters the accident occurred after a change to the plant’s workflow to make the robot more efficient, requiring the aforementioned testing, and called for better safety measures to be established.

    Last month an empty self-driving Cruise robotaxi hit and then proceeded to drag and trap a woman who had seconds earlier been struck by a human hit-and-run driver and fallen in the way of the autonomous vehicle.


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