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Friday, November 17, 2023

Back to the drawing board

SEOUL, South Korea — A worker was crushed to death by an industrial robot at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea on Tuesday.

Police say initial information indicated that human error may have been the root cause of the incident over the machine itself, The Associated Press reported. However, the incident did trigger some concern from the public about the safety of industrial robots.

9 comments:

  1. Stay out of the swing radius of the robot and all should be fine. It’s the modern version of don’t approach a horse from the back.

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  2. And so it begins…

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  3. “Root” cause - it was packing carrots

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  4. Isn’t it just a machine? People have been killed by machinery since its inception.

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  5. A machine running as designed does its task reliably and repetitvely. The interface of human and machine carries a high risk. Unless the machine suddenly malfunctioned, it is the human at fault for an accident.

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  6. Don't stick your dick in the pickle slicer.

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  7. Machines, just like guns operate as the human that is in control of it.

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  8. We need these at the southern border to process illegal aliens.

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