It’s a much bigger problem than commonly understood:
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See, when I first read the headline I thought it meant just what this cartoon shows. Still not funny, but seems more on lines of industrial accidental death than machine uprising.
I echo the thoughts that this was preventable. I have toured many manufacturing facilities where there were terrific safety protocols, and others that were TERRIFYING.
The word “robot” carries far too many sci-fi connotations for it to be the correct choice here.
It’s a machine that operates outside of the confines of an enclosure. Some people call these machines robots because they’re more vertical than horizontal, and their toolpaths can be altered in software instead of following a mechanical linkage, but that doesn’t make them any more “Asimovian” than a drill press.
And “misidentifies” is another misleading word, as that implies the machine has the ability to differentiate all kinds of things. It sounds like it has the ability to detect if a certain input place is “empty”, and all other conditions are considered “not empty”. The only thing it identified about the worker was that he was “not the floor”, thus worthy of triggering the “move box” mechanism.
But I suppose “machine crushes repairman who didn’t use a lockout” isn’t the click-baity sort of headline that news sites want to present.
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