SEOUL: According to the Yonhap news agency on Wednesday ( Nov 8 ), a man was crushed to death by an automobile in South Korea after it appeared that the vehicle was unable to distinguish him from the boxes of produce it was handling.
At a transmission facility for agricultural products in South Gyeongsang province, the man—a robotics company employee in his forties—was examining the robot’s sensor operations.
According to Yonhap, citing the authorities, the professional robot that was lifting boxes containing bell peppers and setting them on a pallet appears to have overheated and recognized the man as the box.
According to Yonhap, the boy’s face and neck were crushed when the mechanical arm pushed his upper body against the conveyor belt.
He was taken to the hospital, but the record stated that he passed away after.
A South Asian male in his fifties was trapped by a machine while working at an auto parts manufacturing plant in March and suffered serious injuries.