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Robot kills worker at German Volkswagen plant
A Volkswagen plant robot "crushed to death" a worker by pinning him to a metal plate.
- Date it happened
- 2014-07-15
- Organisation involved
- Volkswagen
- Product, system or model
- Stationary robot intended to move and manipulate auto parts
Where this came from
- smh.com.au
- cosmosmagazine.com
- dailymail.co.uk
- vice.com
- iflscience.com
- ajc.com
- roboticsbusinessreview.com
- fortune.com
- nbcnews.com
- plantservices.com
- computing.co.uk
- edition.cnn.com
- sciencealert.com
- futurism.com
- businessinsider.com
- telegraph.co.uk
- bbc.co.uk
- thelocal.de
- usatoday.com
- venturebeat.com
- wired.co.uk
- theregister.co.uk
- independent.co.uk
- thedailybeast.com
- khq.com
- time.com
- theguardian.com
Attribution
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