Morbid Fact Du Jour For August 12, 2009
Today’s Automated Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Robert Williams was the first man ever killed by a robot. On January 25, 1979, Williams climbed into a storage rack at the Ford Motor’s Flat Rock casting plant to retrieve a part because the parts-retrieval robot malfunctioned. Suddenly, the robot reactivated and slammed its arm into Williams’ head, killing him instantly.
The second death by robot happened just a couple of years afterwards in 1981. Kenji Urada, a 37-year-old Japanese maintenance engineer was working on a broken robot at a Kawasaki plant when he failed to turn it off. The robot’s mechanical arm accidentally pushed him into a grinding machine.
Culled from: Neatorama
Generously submitted by: Bex
Never trust a robot, I always say! It hasn’t failed me yet.
All my friends make fun of my crippling phobia of robots, but when they finally take over the world, they’ll finally see….
Oh my Goddess… What a way to go. To be pushedinto a grinding machine.
BTW I am at the tail end of reading The Body Brokers: Inside America’s Underground Trade in Human Remains. by Annie Cheney.
Excellent read! And I highly recommend. Not sure if Despair has reviewed it. I am years behind in my reading. My next book has arrived and I am looking forward to it. Despair mentioned buying one as well.The Lives They Left Behind by Darby Penney & Peter Stastny.
Morgana
Meh, just take a picture of the robots with the camera flash on and then you can subdue them.
Rock ‘em, Sock ‘em, robots! lol