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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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.
It’s the Terminator!
Tough Luck
The opening sentence of this article is the purest, most epic piece of win I have ever seen.