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2 July 2015, 10:09

Man crushed to death by robot at car factory - BBC Newsbeat

A worker at a Volkswagen factory in Germany has died, after a robot grabbed him and crushed him against a metal plate.
The 22-year-old man died in hospital after the accident at a plant in Baunatal, 100km north of Frankfurt.
He was working as part of a team of contractors installing the robot when it grabbed him, according to the German car manufacturer.
Heiko Hillwig, from Volkswagen, blamed "human error" rather than the robot.

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2 July 2015, 10:11

"He was working as part of a team of contractors installing the robot when it grabbed him, according to the German car manufacturer."

Maybe the coding should not have been outsourced?
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2 July 2015, 11:14

That's the kind of thing DA loses sleep over.
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2 July 2015, 11:37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Ye2Q8U-rY
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2 July 2015, 14:44

Seems the story was tweeted by Sarah O'Connor...

What links a reporter and the robot apocalypse? - BBC News

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2 July 2015, 14:49

Vorsprung Durch Technik??

“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”
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2 July 2015, 15:13

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2 July 2015, 20:00

Originally posted by greenlake View Post

genius as always!

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