A Korean worker was mistakenly killed by a robot on the production line because he was "mistaken as a box of vegetables."

According to Yonhap News Agency's report on the 8th, a worker was accidentally killed by an industrial robot on the production line because the robot could not distinguish between the worker and the boxes of agricultural products being processed

Screenshot of a Korean media report titled "The machine mistook a person for a box and a man in his 40s was squeezed to death"

According to reports, the man in his 40s was an employee of an industrial robot company and was checking the operation of the robotic arm sensor at an agricultural product distribution center in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. The industrial robot was lifting a box full of green peppers and placing them on a pallet when the system appeared to malfunction and misidentified the man as a box. The robotic arm pushed the man's upper body onto the conveyor belt, fatally squeezing the man's face and chest. He was taken to hospital but later died.

In March this year, South Korea’s first incident of an industrial robot accidentally injuring a worker occurred. At that time, a Korean man in his 50s was trapped by a robot while working at an auto parts manufacturing plant and suffered serious injuries

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