ROBOT KILLS FACTORY WORKER AFTER MISTAKING HIM FOR A BOX

Thu 09 October 2023:

A robot crushed a man to death in South Korea after it was unable to distinguish him from the food boxes it was transporting.

The event occurred as the man, a 40-year-old employee of a robotics company, was inspecting the robot.

The robotic arm mistook the man for a box of veggies and accidentally grabbed him. According to South Korean news agency Yonhap, the machine then pulled him over the conveyor belt, crushing his face and chest. The man was brought to the hospital, but he died as a result of his injuries.

As reported by Yonhap, the robot was given the responsibility of picking boxes of peppers and shifting them onto pallets.

The man was checking the sensor operations of the robot before its test run at the pepper sorting plant located in South Gyeongsang province which was to be held on Wednesday (Nov 8), stated the agency while quoting police.

Originally, the test had to be carried out on November 6 but was postponed to two days because of problems with the sensor of the robot.

The man, who worked in a company which manufactured the robotic arm, was running checks on various machines late into the night on Wednesday when the robot malfunctioned.

After the incident, an official from the Donggoseong Export Agricultural Complex, in a statement, said that there is a need to establish a “precise and safe” system.

The Donggoseong Export Agricultural Complex is the owner of the plant. In March, a South Korean man, who was in his 50s, was seriously injured after a robot trapped him when he was working at an automobile parts manufacturing plant.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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