Robot factory kills 22 workers in VW factory, accuses Co. "Human error"
The entrepreneur aged 22 installed the robotic arm in a cage operations.
Volkswagen has 117 car manufacturing plants around the world, using tens of thousands of robots Fabrizio Bensch Reuters.
A robot killed a man who works in a Volkswagen car plant in Kassel, north of Frankfurt, Germany.
The unnamed 22-year old man died of his wounds in the chest after he installed the robot in an operating grabbed the cage and crushed against a metal plate in the factory.
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The robot in question is a mechanical arm that moves the auto parts in place, Heiko Hillwig, spokesman for Volkswagen said the Telegraph It is part of the automated assembly line in the plant and is capable of operating without operator human.
Although Volkswagen has confirmed his death, it is not known exactly how the man was killed Initially, it was reported that human error was to blame for rather than a problem with the robot itself.
However, the office of the state prosecutor in Kassel confirmed that it has begun an investigation to determine if the robot was in fact under human control when he crushed the man.
We started an investigation to find out exactly what happened and whether anyone was at fault, said Dr. Götz Wied, spokesman for the state attorney in Kassel It is now confirmed that another man was present during the incident, but was unharmed.
Speaking to Newsweek Paul Buckett, public relations manager at Volkswagen UK, said that there had been a lot of confusion surrounding the circumstances of the man's death.
This is a very unusual situation, it is first necessary to impossible for anyone to be inside a cage when a robot works, Buckett said, adding that the robot in question is a standard machine room which functions predictable.
A robot of this type didnt sensors to detect humans around him, said Buckett So how the robot could have felt the man's body to grab him.
However, he refused to confirm whether the state prosecutors now suspect foul, citing the ongoing investigation in Kassel.
Buckett noted that there are 117 Volkswagen plants around the world, using tens of thousands of robots, and the company has never had an incident in production or development insulation where someone was wounded by a robot.
According to government figures 26 deaths occurred as a result of a malfunction of the robot over the last 30 years in America alone.
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