Factory Robot Kills Human Worker

[ThePhantasm]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/02/europe/germany-volkswagen-robot-kills-worker/index.html

CNN) An automotive assembly line robot mortally injured a worker at a car factory in Germany this week, a prosecutor's office said.

The man, 21, was installing the robot at a Volkswagen assembly line on Tuesday in Baunatal, which lies next to the city of Kassel, local newspaper the Hessiche Niedersaechsische Allgemeine reported, citing a VW spokesman. The robot gripped him and pressed up him against a metal plate, crushing his chest.

Despite efforts to revive him, the worker, an employee of a third-party vendor, later died in hospital, the paper reported.

As a matter of procedure necessary to have the body released in cases of non-natural death, the state prosecutors' office said it is investigating to rule out any criminal culpability.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

First, condolences. Any loss of life, is a sad, sad thing. And this is a tragedy.

Secondly, it has begun:
[YT]XcNXq5DUZnk[/YT]

 

[Six]

As soon as I saw the title the T2 theme popped into my head. If anyone needs me I'll be in my bunker.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Stolen from nite-owl in the LOL pics thread.

 

[KevanG]

I saw that on Facebook and thought it was hilarious. I'm sure the million or so people who sent her Terminator jokes thought they were being hilarious too.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[terry78]

That is creepy as ****.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Had they programmed it with Asimov's laws this all could have been avoided

 

[Kar]

Keep that mess in Germany.

 

[Gold Samurai]

As soon as I saw the title the T2 theme popped into my head. If anyone needs me I'll be in my bunker.

I get first dibs on rat meat and actual-fire-inside-TV-to-warm-me

 

[terry78]

If that mother****er wasn't even turned on, I'm done. These things are self aware at that point.

Off topic, I like that the worker is referred to as "human", as opposed to to one of the other robot workers.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Guys, come on, a man died here. This is just in poor taste.

 

[kane9321]

it starts

 

[Teelie]

The death was caused by human error, not some kind of sentient robot or malfunctioning robot or robot-anything. It's a tragedy and unintentionally funny the woman who posted the tweet had Sarah O'Connor as a name, although it is odd she's never seen any of the Terminator movies or even knows what Skynet is.

 

[Guts]

Not the first human to be killed by a robot.
http://www.wired.com/2010/01/0125robot-kills-worker/

 

[ThePhantasm]

Guys, come on, a man died here. This is just in poor taste.

Yes, it is both sad and scary, not funny.

 

[Mike_D202]

Stolen from nite-owl in the LOL pics thread.

Sad about the poor guy though.

 

[SaintExmin]

Not the first human to be killed by a robot.
http://www.wired.com/2010/01/0125robot-kills-worker/

thats what i was going to say - its almost as if they killed this guy just to publicize the new Terminator movie

 

[Spider-Aziz]

First, condolences. Any loss of life, is a sad, sad thing. And this is a tragedy.

Agreed.

Guys, come on, a man died here. This is just in poor taste.

And

Yes, it is both sad and scary, not funny.

Agreed.

 

[bullets]

thats what i was going to say - its almost as if they killed this guy just to publicize the new Terminator movie

There always seems to be strange coincidences like this. Art imitates life and so forth.