A the robot attacked and injured a Tesla engineer two years ago inside Giga Texasa huge factory located in Austin (United States) where the company is headquartered Elon Musk intends to build a electric machine which costs less than $25,000.
The incident, reported Wednesday by the technology news agency The information and spread by various international media, opens disturbing scenarios and it sounds like a warning about what the future could look like with growth Use of robots in industrial production.
According to reports, the accident occurred in 2021 in Giga Texas, where the engineer started working on three robots without realizing that only two were offrevealed The informationquoting two anonymous witnesses.
The third robot continued to move and “It pinned the engineer against a surface, digging its claws into his body and drawing blood from his back and arm.”the sources cited by the media assure.
An industrial “arm” similar to the one involved in the accident. (Photo: AP)Only after another worker has pressed the button on stop of emergency The victim managed to free himself from the robot.
After the robot was shut down, the engineer managed to free himself, leaving behind “a trail of blood”according to the injury report filed in Travis County.
The 2021 incident came to light through a accident history filed with regulatory authorities. According to the trade publication, almost one in 21 workers at the Tesla Giga factory in Texas was injured on the job in 2022.
Elon Musk’s anger
The tycoon spoke on Twitter. (Photo: Reuters)Tesla owner’s response Elon Musk, it didn’t take long to arrive. In his account on X (formerly Twitter), the tycoon referred to one of the articles denouncing the attack.
“AND really embarrassing that the media mentions an accident that occurred two years ago due to a simple Kuka industrial robotic arm (present in all factories) and insinuate that it is now due Optimal“, the robot developed by Tesla, complained Musk.
More robot attacks on humans
Optimus prototype, Tesla’s main bet in robotics. (Photo: AFP)However, it is not the first time that incidents of this type have occurred It is the first time that a robot attacks an employee.
On November 8, 2023, at South Koreaa worker was mistaken for a box of peppers and crushed by a robotic arm.
In 2021, Kawasaki Heavy Industries employee Kenji Urada died after block the path of a robot it wasn’t working properly.
Source: Clarin
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