Plant owner calls for 'precise and safe system' after second serious incident involving automated machinery
  • napalminjello
    37•6 months ago

    The robot did exactly what it was programmed to do. It didn’t mistake anything, the guy was in there with all safety disabled, the robot running, and he accidentally triggered a part present sensor. This story is nothing about industrial robotics and is really just a lesson on why you shouldnt defeat multiple safety system and have industrial machines running while you’re inside a cell

  • @[email protected]English
    24•6 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•6 months ago

      Fun fact: It’s also the exact number of police officers shot dead while on duty in Germany during the same time frame.

    • BrikoXOPMEnglish
      -4•6 months ago

      It’s not significant in a vacuum, but if you scale up the numbers to the current level of human production, it becomes significant.

      • @[email protected]English
        9•6 months ago

        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.

        • BrikoXOPMEnglish
          2•6 months ago

          Don’t disagree with you there, but the safety issues should be improved before scaling up more.

          • KushanEnglish
            5•6 months ago

            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.

          • @[email protected]English
            4•6 months ago

            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.