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Case in point, a robotics company employee was crushed to death by a robot in a South Korean food handling factory after it failed to tell him apart from the box of vegetables it was handling at the time, the
The man, who was inspecting the robot, was reportedly grabbed and pushed against a conveyor belt, with the robot crushing both his face and chest.The man was employed by the company that made the robotic arm, which was meant to lift boxes of peppers and transfer them onto pallets nearby. The company had noticed issues with the robot's sensors, leading to the employee checking its operations ahead of a test run, per theIt's far from the first time a robot killed a person.
But when these robots break down, experts say that humans will likely still be essential to get them working again. And that comes with its own risks, as the latest incident goes to show.
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