Tesla robot Attacks an engineer at company's Texas factory

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A Tesla engineer was attacked by a robot during a brutal and bloody malfunction at the company's Giga Texas factory near Austin.

Two witnesses watched in horror as their fellow employee was attacked by the machine designed to grab and move freshly cast aluminum car parts.

The robot had pinned the man, who was then programming software for two disabled Tesla robots nearby, before sinking its metal claws into the worker's back and arm, leaving a 'trail of blood' along the factory surface.

The incident - which left the victim with an 'open wound' on his left hand - was revealed in a 2021 injury report filed to Travis county and federal regulators,

While no other robot-related injures were reported to regulators by Tesla at the Texas factory in either 2021 or 2022, the incident comes amid years of heightened concerns over the risks of automated robots in the workplace.

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Two witnesses watched in horror as a fellow Tesla employee rescued the bloodied engineer from an unwitting, but violent robotic assault — perpetrated by an automated assembly device (like these red robot arms above) designed to grab and move freshly cast aluminum car parts

Reports of increased injuries due to robotic coworkers at Amazon shipment centers, killer droid-surgeons, self-driving cars, and even violence from robotic chess instructors, have led some to question speedy integration of the new tech.

The injury report, which Tesla must submit to authorities by law to maintain its lucrative tax breaks in Texas, claimed the engineer did not require time off of work.

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hollydolly said:
no it doesn't...only if chainsaws have a 'brain'...
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True. I get your point. I should of put that in the context I was thinking of...no slight intended. There are so many accidents by big and small machines everyday, I know you know that. I have a feeling that, in general, the safer environment would be to get as many humans out of the way. :)
 
Good grief. Firstly, the headline "Tesla robot ATTACKS engineer" is laughably exaggerated. Pretty sure the robots on the line don't have an "attack mode". They're not able to "attack" anyone, or anything. What their apparently was, is an industrial accident involving a robot. Sadly industrial accidents happen all the time (see @Paco Dennis ) above). Luckily in this case, sounds like the guy has a minor injury.

I guess adding "ATTACK" in all caps helped get some clicks over there at the Daily Mail. Let's hope the robot doesn't remove itself from the line and go join up with some terrorist group, or go on a rampage at a nearby bar and grill.
 
I have read of reports within various newer model cars of the vehicle lurching forward when the brake is applied, as if the car was rear-ended. The result is the car leaping out from a stop into traffic. I read of these accounts when doing some car research on CarComplaints.com. This type of thing never happened on older cars. So if this happens when the driver is in control, I shudder to think what could happen in a self-driving car.
 
At this point in time, robots are more of a sophisticated machinery than a “thinking” AI-person. It is natural that if a machine is supposed to grab and move a vehicle part, then if there is a human in the way, it could be grabbed as well, or instead. It is not like the machine deliberately attacked a human, like we see in the movies.

Ever since humanity has had machinery, we have had accidents caused by that machinery, and just because it becomes more sophisticated in what it is able to be programmed to do, that does not mean that it independently thinks and makes decisions to do something different than it was programmed for.

We are getting closer to that kind of thing being possible, I think, and I hope that it does not happen; but worry that it could, sometime in the future.
 

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