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>>ummonk+(OP)
Article is missing some key details. Every industrial robot that I've seen has at least a line painted in the floor, or more often a physical barrier, and workers are required to stay behind it when the robot is powered on. Did this factory not have such basic precautions, or did the dead worker violate protocol, or did another worker turn on the robot at the wrong time?

>>nradov+r3
It could well have been a maintenance situation. Those tend to be extremely tricky to do safely, in spite of all the precautions, especially if you want to do some diagnostics without taking the whole thing apart.

I have religious respect for those arms, if they're powered up you couldn't pay me to get within reach.