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Industrial robot crushes man to death in South Korean distribution centre

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    primarily
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    Is this just what happens when the best engineers work to produce phones and entertainment goods? That is a shame that someone died. You'd have thought there would be a sensor for heat, weight,...

    Is this just what happens when the best engineers work to produce phones and entertainment goods? That is a shame that someone died. You'd have thought there would be a sensor for heat, weight, sounds, density or anything else.

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      vektor
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      Industrial robots are usually pretty stupid and don't have a lot of sensors. The security architecture usually centers around there not being a human in arm's reach. If that's the case here, it...

      Industrial robots are usually pretty stupid and don't have a lot of sensors. The security architecture usually centers around there not being a human in arm's reach. If that's the case here, it seems more likely that there was a fuckup in procedures and the robot shouldn't have been on at all.

      Or it's possible that industrial robots have moved on from there and this is supposed to be a compliant robot that failed.

      13 votes
      1. Arminius
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        It sounds like they were testing the robot after modification. Even if the bot is supposed to work around humans, there needs to be an emergency stop button and someone watching. And if the bot is...

        It sounds like they were testing the robot after modification. Even if the bot is supposed to work around humans, there needs to be an emergency stop button and someone watching. And if the bot is not supposed to work around humans then this person should not be near it at all when it is powered.

        7 votes