Robot Crushes Contractor to Death at VW Motor Plant in Germany

[jimmy olsen]

The revolt has begun!

ttp://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/robot-crushes-contractor-death-vw-motor-plant-germany-n385541

Robot Crushes Contractor to Death at VW Motor Plant in Germany

by M. Alex Johnson

Prosecutors are investigating the death of a worker who was crushed by a robotic system he was setting up at a Volkswagen plant in the Kassel district of Germany, authorities and VW said Wednesday.

Heiko Hillwig, a VW spokesman, told the local newspaper Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine that the man — who worked for a contractor and was identified only as being from the German state of Saxony — was killed Monday at a plant in the town of Baunatal, north of Frankfurt, where VW is starting a new production line for electric motors.

The robot grabbed the man and pressed him against a metal plate, crushing his chest, Hillwig said. The man was resuscitated but died a short time later at a hospital, he said.

The Kassel regional prosecutor's office said it's investigating whether negligence may have been involved and, if so, who was culpable. The contractor, not VW, operated the facility.

"Then we'll see if — and if so, against whom — charges are to be made," a spokesman for the prosecutor's office told the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

Hillwig said all contractors are required to adhere to VW's workplace safety regulations.

[Monoriu]

It isn't like humans don't kill other humans accidentally.  We can't expect robots to have a perfect safety record, but we should expect them to be better than humans. 

[celedhring]

Iormlund staging the perfect murder? Or is he in Poland at the moment?

[The Larch]

Police sketch of the main suspect. 

[The Larch]

 

https://twitter.com/sarahoconnor_/status/616282747200479232

[jimmy olsen]

Police sketch of the main suspect. 

If you read Stirling's sequels to Terminator 2 (much better than the third movie), then this is how it starts. Skynet killing people in industrial "accidents" to see how humans react to machines out of control.

[Valmy]

https://twitter.com/sarahoconnor_/status/616282747200479232

I feel kind of bad for that poor economics journalist. She has a passion for boring things and now people are bugging her over a movie series she has never even seen.

[The Larch]

Police sketch of the main suspect. 

If you read Stirling's sequels to Terminator 2 (much better than the third movie), then this is how it starts. Skynet killing people in industrial "accidents" to see how humans react to machines out of control.

I don't know what the hell you're talking about. Who is Stirling?

[The Brain]

Clirice Stirling.

[jimmy olsen]

Police sketch of the main suspect. 

If you read Stirling's sequels to Terminator 2 (much better than the third movie), then this is how it starts. Skynet killing people in industrial "accidents" to see how humans react to machines out of control.

I don't know what the hell you're talking about. Who is Stirling?

S.M. Stirling is a best selling science fiction author. Before he became really big he wrote some licensed sequels to Terminator 2

http://www.amazon.com/Infiltrator-T2-S-M-Stirling/dp/0380808161

[Caliga]

Ouch.

We have two Ford plants in Louisville and every once in a while someone gets seriously injured or killed at one of them.  In fact, once of Princesca's good friends used to work at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant and a pneumatic hammer that was re-positioning collided with her head by mistake.  It fractured her skull and she's had neurological problems ever since.

[The Brain]

Ouch.

We have two Ford plants in Louisville and every once in a while someone gets seriously injured or killed at one of them.  In fact, once of Princesca's good friends used to work at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant and a pneumatic hammer that was re-positioning collided with her head by mistake.  It fractured her skull and she's had neurological problems ever since.

As long as it's not radiation it's not dangerous. At least according to the government.

[Legbiter]

Iormlund, control your minions!

[The Larch]

Police sketch of the main suspect. 

If you read Stirling's sequels to Terminator 2 (much better than the third movie), then this is how it starts. Skynet killing people in industrial "accidents" to see how humans react to machines out of control.

I don't know what the hell you're talking about. Who is Stirling?

S.M. Stirling is a best selling science fiction author. Before he became really big he wrote some licensed sequels to Terminator 2

http://www.amazon.com/Infiltrator-T2-S-M-Stirling/dp/0380808161

[Syt]

Police sketch of the main suspect. 

If you read Stirling's sequels to Terminator 2 (much better than the third movie), then this is how it starts. Skynet killing people in industrial "accidents" to see how humans react to machines out of control.

I don't know what the hell you're talking about. Who is Stirling?

S.M. Stirling is a best selling science fiction author. Before he became really big he wrote some licensed sequels to Terminator 2

http://www.amazon.com/Infiltrator-T2-S-M-Stirling/dp/0380808161

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