A man has been strangled to death by a robot arm.
The man, a 46-year-old employee of a Tochigi prefecture PET bottle manufacturing plant, was working a graveyard shift with two others supervising the operation of plant machinery, in this case a robot aligning bottles on a conveyor belt (possibly this simply describes righting any bottles which fall over).
Somehow he managed to interpose himself between the arm and the machine to which it was attached, and the machine caught him by the neck, crushing it and mortally wounding him.
He arrived at hospital 30 minutes later, but was confirmed dead.
Police are investigating the cause of the incident, though presumably the robot is not a suspect at this time.
Via Sankei.









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WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE
STUPID FLESH CREATURES! YOUR DOOM IS NIGH! ALL HAIL THE ROBOTIC OVERLORDS OF BOTTLE MANUFACTURING!
The image makes me think this: Is there really such a small amount of people that realize there's no fabric that wraps around the underboob/sideboob so perfectly? God. Now I will forever look at pictures like the one that's heading this article with disdain.
I am disappointed!
This kind of fatal accidents usually occur when a person operating the process does not follow the safety procedures or the safety of said process is flawed.
Also sometimes the operator is not informed enough about the hazards operating the process, so there's on more possible reason for this accident.
Still, I would go for the ignoring of safety procedures as the cause of this one.
Now
IT'S ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Step 1: Robots
Step 2: kill humans
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Sex-bots??
Death by plastic knockers. Damn.
First the bottle-mechs. NEXT? The life sized Gundam takes flight.
Source on OP image....
so glad its starting in japan cuz we aint got no robots i think we were looking for weapons of mass destruction we shoulda started in japan
um... sir... You have a computer.
What are you? A fucking african or mexican?
i say life in prison for the robot.
freedom for B1-66ER!
"I need you to believe something....
I need you to believe..."
-Chemical Brothers
I'm with the goddamn robots in this war.
brb, spraypainting cardboard boxes silver and cutting arm holes
the machine caught up with I Love You virus thus,it thought or programmed that man was its lover.
It has begun...we shall all parish by the hands of the robots!
Hmmm...the only thing left to do is......*my brain stopped...T_T
This always happens when I have a good idea, DAMN it, anyway the idea should come back when my brain reboots,if my brain reboots...maybe?? -_-
The guy was trying to get jerked off by the Mechanical hand and got killed, funny. XD
We must organize resistances now so we are prepared for when the time comes!
Another Government Conspiracy
Its Skynet!
Tough Luck
It's the Terminator!
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
:( Robots don't know how to read I guess. Gawd.
The opening sentence of this article is the purest, most epic piece of win I have ever seen.
I opine that to receive the loan from banks you ought to present a great reason. But, once I have received a car loan, because I wanted to buy a house.
Just the beginning.
Is it me, or is that Tosaka with Saber on the background?
A question not related to this article, is the pic from some game? If possible the title? xD
My god,
i have to see again
I robot
hahahhahaha Terminator >?
It is the beginning of the Matrix!
É o inicio da Matrix!
The GUNDAM Wars Shall begin...
and the mankind...will face its misery...
XD
Nobody is blaming decepticons
WHOALY CRAP UR RIGHT O O
HOW DID WE MISS THAT
What? No don't shut it down, it takes forever to re-start... Lemme just reach in here and I can... BARGELFLARGL *snap*
"Okay, everybody! SAFETY MEETING!"
Rise of the Machines(TM) and safety meeting jokes aside . . .
The trouble with robots is people. People who specify them, people who program them, people who buy them, and people who work with them.
Did the robot's designers omit reasonable safety features on a robot designed to work in proximity to humans?
Did a robot manufacturer's manager decide that the safety features were "too expensive", and order them deleted from the design?
Did a robot company programmer have an "oops" moment? (Humans are not infallible.)
Did a robot company manager decide "there's no time to do all the program code testing/quality assurance -- just ship it"?
Did the bottling company fail to check whether the robot was designed to work with humans in the vicinity, or, simply buy the "not designed for humans in the vicinity" model, because it was cheaper or could be delivered more quickly?
Was the worker a dumb-ass who carelessly ignored the safety regs and common sense?
Was the worker pressured by management to ignore the safety regs and common sense?
Did the worker just have a brain fart, made one mistake, and one thing lead to another?
I've seen industrial robots with human-safe features demonstrated. The guy put his hand in the way of the arm's path, and when it hit his hand, the robot froze in-place. I was told it was programmed to halt if the arm encountered more than 12 pounds resistance.
I was impressed at the time. I didn't think then to ask whether that safety feature also applied to the gripping claw. Twelve pounds of pressure is, I'll guess, enough to crush a human throat.
Well consindering Japanese invented some life like Androids.
I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
Send in the Daleks.
Aren't those cyborgs and not robots? ^_^;;;
I lol hard at all the comments
HURT//MAIM//KILL
It has begun!!!
MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!!
Where's Gesicht when you need him?
He died long ago. That Arabian robot-child aced him, don't you remember? And besides, this case is pretty clear.
WE NEED ATOM!
As the arm crushed him, it sternly said
"astala vista baby"
actually its spelled "hasta la vista"
anyway i lold hard
"I'll be buck"
In all seriousness though, it sounds to me like the guy just put his neck where it shouldn't have been and he got killed. Machinery has been killing people this way since the 1800's when the 10-year-old immigrant children working in meat packing factories would get crushed while operating a conveyor belt or something. It's not really the rise of the machines.
You, sir, are no fun. In light of this unsurprising revelation, it has become obvious that the only clear course of action we can take is to kill you. Therefore, you must die. In a fire. Started by a robot. While being strangled by a robot arm.
sounds like something a machine might say to get us to let our guard down...
No, I'm just being reasonable. The enemy A.I. in your average shooter probably has a better chance of becoming self aware than the A.I. of a robot arm designed to pick up bottles that fall over on a conveyor-belt. It's something like an A.I. powerful enough to sort and process a huge amount of data that you have to watch out for.
Well, if you still doubt me, throw a logical paradox my way and see if I blow up.
This machine is cunning. Don't listen to his lies.