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When a human is mistaken for a box of veg
mendip_discovery:
BBC News - Man crushed to death by robot in South Korea
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67354709
--- Quote ---A man has been crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentiate him from the boxes of food it was handling, reports say.
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--- Quote ---The man had been checking the robot's sensor operations ahead of its test run at the pepper sorting plant in South Gyeongsang province, scheduled for 8 November, the agency adds, quoting police.
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Can only assume safety lockouts were not in place. Not a nice way to go.
IanB:
It's weird, but dangerous machinery always should have a lock out/tag out procedure in place before working on it. So I would guess this was more about not following correct procedures and less about a failure of technology.
mendip_discovery:
I just hope there are sufficient barriers around the robot to prevent humans getting too close.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on November 08, 2023, 07:26:10 pm ---I just hope there are sufficient barriers around the robot to prevent humans getting too close.
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For the common robots, a better solution would be to resurrect the law requiring them to be preceded by a man walking with a red flag.
SiliconWizard:
That's unfortunate.
Machinery designed without suffiicient protection to be operated safely, especially if it's autonomous machinery (not directly controlled by human operators) is just bad engineering, whether those are called "robots", "hammers" or crapshit.
Since protection always has its limits or can be uneconomical, at least give proper instructions and procedures so that no human can get closer to the machine than a certain distance.
Just because it is called a robot and even more so if it is claimed to use "AI" doesn't give any excuse to that fact. Bad tools are just bad tools.
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