Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him — Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant::Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant

  • Jamie@jamie.moe
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    1 year ago

    Sounds like plant management needs to enforce lock-out tag-out procedure. That’s rule 1 of working on heavy machinery, no matter how safe you think it is.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      The article I had read about it said it was being looked at for sensor issues in the first place. It was extra dumb to be looking at that live robot.