The description of his death literally sounds like it’s from Final Destination lol – it malfunctioned, picked him up, and then pressed him to death against the conveyor belt line.
>A robotics company employee in his 40s was crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it mistook him for a box of vegetables.
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>Tragically, the robotic arm grabbed the man and pushed him against a conveyor belt, resulting in fatal injuries.
“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, inasmuch as the robot is able to discern who is a human and what constitutes harm to humans.”
The sad part is that I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t change anything and just say its an acceptable risk they are willing to live with for efficiency
`Box detected. Box is not within acceptable box dimensions. Reshaping initiated. Box reshaped. Box is now within acceptable box dimensions. Some leakage occurred during reshaping.`
offwidthe says
It has begun.
habitual_wanderer says
What an interesting headline after I finished watching the Netflix series, Pluto
-Relevant_Username says
The description of his death literally sounds like it’s from Final Destination lol – it malfunctioned, picked him up, and then pressed him to death against the conveyor belt line.
Futueteipsum7 says
“Dammit, give me the HEAD of the engineer who was in charge of the Box-Human Differentiation Loop!”
LeadInvestPB says
After being in a largely automated warehouse, this is one of my biggest fears.
violentpac says
>A robotics company employee in his 40s was crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it mistook him for a box of vegetables.
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>Tragically, the robotic arm grabbed the man and pushed him against a conveyor belt, resulting in fatal injuries.
…Are they crushing their vegetables?
hot_sauce_in_coffee says
Even in death, he shall serve the omnissiah
ninjamullet says
“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, inasmuch as the robot is able to discern who is a human and what constitutes harm to humans.”
TheAnt317 says
FNAF robots.
blacknite001 says
The sad part is that I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t change anything and just say its an acceptable risk they are willing to live with for efficiency
Brother_of_Steel says
First blood
Frisky_Mongoose says
Remember, kids. Don’t be a square!
SleepyFunn says
How is no one gonna talk about how this is exactly what happened on South Park?
Mckooldude says
This isn’t really onion-y at all. Industrial robot arms are scary dangerous.
sudomatrix says
`Box detected. Box is not within acceptable box dimensions. Reshaping initiated. Box reshaped. Box is now within acceptable box dimensions. Some leakage occurred during reshaping.`