Homicidial robot

 

 HOMICIDIAL ROBOT

The accident was the first of its kind in Japan, a nation which has the largest robot workforce in the world.

An industrial robot has killed a worker who was trying to repair it; the first accident of its kind reported in Japan which has the world’s largest robot workforce.
Details of the accident, which occurred in July at a plant of Kawasaki heavy industries, were revealed yesterday by the Labour Standards Bureau of Hyogo prefecture, western Japan. Kenji Urada, aged, 37, a worker at the Akashi plant of the company, was trapped by the work arm of the robot which pinned him against a machine which cuts gears. He had entered a prohibited area around the robot to repair it, the Labour Standards Bureau said.

                                                 

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