Man crushed to death by robot that mistook him for a box of vegetables
Plant owner calls for 'precise and safe system' after second serious incident involving automated machinery
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A study published by the American Journal of Industrial Medicine earlier this year said 41 people had been killed by industrial robots in the US between 1992 and 2017.
I feel like that isn't a significant number to report. I bet the same amount of people have died in baby-gate related accidents in the same time frame. I'm not trying to devalue human life, just making the point that we may have bigger problems than industrial machinery going on right now.
Fun fact: It's also the exact number of police officers shot dead while on duty in Germany during the same time frame.
It's not significant in a vacuum, but if you scale up the numbers to the current level of human production, it becomes significant.
I have no numbers to back me up, so this isn't going to be a hill I die on, but I feel like even though we produce more than we did in that time frame, we use robots significantly more than we used to, as well, so there are less humans to be harmed.
Don't disagree with you there, but the safety issues should be improved before scaling up more.
The first to fall to the robot uprising will be the first honored in Valhalla.
What safety issues? It's less than 2 people per year, I guarantee you that way more people are killed in manufacturing due to other reasons.
My dude, more people die from constipation every year in the US than they do from robots. Like, two orders of magnitude more people. Industrial robots are way more common than you think, all this statistic means is that robots are MUCH safer than, say, lathes, hand drills, hammers, god forbid ladders, stubbing your toe...
What is the point of this? More people starve to death every year because a robot took their job than are directly harmed bybsaid robot.
You're right, in a vacuum the death toll would be much higher.
