VW Robot Goes Postal..Kills Man..May be on murder charge

[Don1]

Robot kills worker at Volkswagen plant in Germany
Wednesday 1 July 2015

A robot has killed a contractor at one of Volkswagen’s production plants in Germany, the automaker has said.

The man died on Monday at the plant in Baunatal, about 100km (62 miles) north of Frankfurt, VW spokesman Heiko Hillwig said.

The 22-year-old was part of a team that was setting up the stationary robot when it grabbed and crushed him against a metal plate, Hillwig said.German news agency DPA reported that prosecutors were considering whether to bring charges, and if so, against whom.

[Mosiah]

If sentenced to death, I hope electrocution is not an option.

[Peter R]

De-programming maybe?

[Assasin]

So much for eternal faith in these machines.

[Historian]

Lol Boss

So much for eternal faith in these machines.

Can you imagine the hell we will face when hackers begin their work on robots, driver-less cars and pilot-less planes?

As we have seen in the past, nobody/entity is impervious to those damn hackers.

[Don1]

So much for eternal faith in these machines.

Your usual muddled thinking

Death by Robot -- 1

Death by Humans -- 600 million+

So much for eternal faith in these "intelligent" carbon-based life forms