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.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    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.

    The robotic arm, confusing the man for a box of vegetables, grabbed him and pushed his body against the conveyer belt, crushing his face and chest, South Korean news agency Yonhap said.

    The man had been checking the robot’s sensor operations ahead of its test run at the pepper sorting plant in South Gyeongsang province, scheduled for 8 November, the agency adds, quoting police.

    The man, a worker from the company that manufactured the robotic arm, was running checks on the machine late into the night on Wednesday when it malfunctioned.

    In a statement after the incident, an official from the Donggoseong Export Agricultural Complex, which owns the plant, called for a “precise and safe” system to be established.

    In March, a South Korean man in his 50s suffered serious injuries after getting trapped by a robot while working at an automobile parts manufacturing plant.

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