A Man Has Been Killed By A Robot At Volkswagen Plant In Germany

Posted by: lukwago J in world news July 2, 2015

A robot has killed a 22-year-old contractor at a Volkswagen car factory in Germany, the un identified young man was accidentally trapped by a robot and hit against metal plate, he got severe injuries especially on his chest and later he died at the car plant in Baunatal which is about 63 miles of Frankfurt.

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The Volkswagen spokesman, Heiko Hillwing said,” The late was part of the team which was fixing up the automated stationary robot at the factory in north of Frankfurt, Heiko continued and said that during the incident, there was another contractor at the very point, but fortunately he was not injured.”

What is a robot?
A robot is an automated machinery / a mechanical arm that was built and programmed to function without a human operator in order to move car parts into specific places.

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The reports suggested that human error was to blame but NOT the robot itself, the robot is designed to perform several tasks during the assembly process within specific area at the factory.

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It was the first incident of that kind to happen at the Volkswagen plant!

Way back in the year 1971, Robert Williams was also killed by a robot in the same way at a Ford car production line in Michigan. In 1981, an engineer at Kawasaki car factory in Japan, Urada Kenji was killed by a broken robot which he failed to turn off completely before, it pushed him into the grinding machine and died.

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