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1. knodi1+u2[view] [source] 2023-11-09 00:44:03
>>ummonk+(OP)
Surely not the first death by industrial robot... those things are notorious for being powerful and for being designed for a human-free work area.
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2. mikequ+k4[view] [source] 2023-11-09 00:58:24
>>knodi1+u2
This article says the first death occurred in 1979.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/robot...

>One day in 1979, a robot at a Ford Motor Company casting plant malfunctioned—human workers determined that it was not going fast enough. And so 25-year-old Robert Williams was asked to climb into a storage rack to help move things along. The one-ton robot continued to work silently, smashing into Williams’s head and instantly killing him. This was reportedly the first incident in which a robot killed a human; many more would follow.

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