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

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

    • PreviouslyAmused@lemmy.mlEnglish
      172·
      1 year ago

      For the same reason that someone decided that it would be a good idea to have machines be able to generate energy from organic material….

      Yeah, let’s build robots that can feed on humans to recharge their batteries, no way that’d be a problem.

    • Inmate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      112·
      1 year ago

      It’s 로봇 크러쉬 [Robot Crusher] brand. They advertise this cooking process and must therefore kill boxes of peppers with prejudice and treat their structure with total disrespect.

      © 2023 로봇 크러쉬™

    • Dkarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      1 year ago

      I don’t see where that was stated that it was programmed to do that. Not sure if dad joke or just really stupid person.

  • Cosmicomical@lemmy.worldEnglish
    697·
    1 year ago

    Wtf is this fear mongering? I’m totally for luddism but this is something else. Not the first time a machine kills a person, and will not be the last. Put panic stop buttons on any machine that can potentially harm a human, and nowadays you can add a range of sensors that can help identify a living thing from a box of vegetables. This is entirely the fault of designers.

    Btw i refuse to read the article if the post keeps this title and picture.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      it had a sensor for it, it malfunctioned, now why it wasn’t turned off while the tech was in there is another story. If they were testing it, they should have been a safe distance away or had it mostly powered off. This is just unsafe work environment.

      • jagungal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        My first question when I read the article was why didn’t they lock out/tag out the machine before getting in it?

    • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      A thread on a different article about the same thing had someone demanding a change in law to make robots safer and stop this happening again because 48 people were killed by robots in the USA…since 1992.

      Yes, there’s a lot to take in with that. Yes, some people are idiots.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      So I never understood the importance of the cotton gin until I grew some cotton for giggles.

      Y’all ever tried to get those seeds out?! There’s 4-8 per boll and they are enmeshed. Just cleaning a couple of puffs is a tough chore. And waste as little as possible. Now do 40 acres. The bales around here are about the size of a short tractor trailer box.

      Also, try picking cotton some time. Puts a whole new spin on slavery. By harvest time those leaves turn into pointy, hardened razor blades. I barely reached in and one slide up the side of my finger about 1/2". Took 2-weeks to heal since I apparently got a fat inoculation of bacteria.

      Now do it fast, bent over, from pre-dawn to just past dusk. And get whipped if you don’t hustle. Slave’s hands had to be lumps of unfeeling callous.

      Oh, and the part school didn’t teach about the cotton gin; It made cotton vastly more profitable. Guess where I’m going with this.

      And to lighten the mood, have some racist ass field trip.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    “Mistakes”?

    Was it ever designed to attempt to tell the difference? Aren’t most packing “robots” just machines a basic set of sequences with maybe a sensor or two for the most egregious problems, like “there’s something here, do thing” vs “nothing here, don’t begin sequence”

    • LowtierComputer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Wow. Robert Williams’ death was a very interesting one legally. I wonder if Ford would have gotten away Scott free of they weren’t such a huge manufacturer in the area.

  • Nacktmull@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    1 year ago

    “We did not know back then but that was how it started” dark-synth music intensifies

    Seriously, I’m sorry for his family and friends, hope the company will bleed for this