WF-35XNXP
Stacking robot fatally crushes employee in South Korea
An industrial robot is reported to have crushed a man to death in South Korea when it failed to differentiate the man from the boxes of produce it was handling.
- Date it happened
- 2023-11-08
- Organisation involved
- Unnamed South Gyeongsang province produce distribution center
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