2023-11-08 20:01:10
Research indicates that the robot mistook the man for a box, pushing him against the conveyer belt. The worker died tragically.
A man was crushed to death by a robot in South Koreaafter the machine apparently had not distinguished it from the boxes of products it was handling, the news agency reported on Wednesday Yonhap.
The man, a worker in his 40s for a robotics company, was inspecting the robot’s sensor operations at a produce distribution center in South Gyeongsang Province.
Apparently, the industrial robot, which was lifting boxes full of peppers and placing them on a pallet, malfunctioned and identified the man as a box, he said. Yonhap citing the Police.
tragic death
He robotic arm He pushed his upper body against the conveyor belt, crushing his face and chest, according to the news agency.
Still alive, he was taken to the hospital but later died, the report stated.
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