Thursday, November 9, 2023

Robot crushes man


Clean up on aisle 12.

Shouldn't robots be augmented with cameras and computer vision to standardize the object recognition needed for differentiating between humans and boxes? 

No doubt, Amazon must be a Play-doh fun factory.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/08/south-korean-man-killed-by-industrial-robot-in-distribution-centre

From the article:

The industrial robot, which was lifting boxes filled with bell peppers and placing them on a pallet, appears to have malfunctioned and identified the man as a box, Yonhap reported, citing the police.

The robotic arm pushed the man’s upper body down against the conveyor belt, crushing his face and chest, according to Yonhap.

In March, a South Korean man in his 50s suffered serious injuries after getting trapped by a robot while working at an automobile parts manufacturing plant.


As C-3PO once said, "Oh! How horrid!"