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

  • Jamie
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    155 months ago

    Sounds like plant management needs to enforce lock-out tag-out procedure. That’s rule 1 of working on heavy machinery, no matter how safe you think it is.

    • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      35 months ago

      The article I had read about it said it was being looked at for sensor issues in the first place. It was extra dumb to be looking at that live robot.

  • @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    145 months 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”

  • @laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    55 months ago

    What I don’t understand is why the grip claw needed to be applying enough strength to crush a human torso and skull, or even be able to close far enough to cause damage to a person to do its job