Robot Kills Man at Volkswagen Plant(time.com)

10 pointsby q411 lat temu6 comments

http://time.com/3944181/robot-kills-man-volkswagen-plant/

3 comments

This is Hacker News. We know the difference between robotics and automation.

Industrial automation such as this has been killing absent minded technicians for years, as early as 1979:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7KMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Bu8F...

betolink11 lat temu

It should say "A programmer's mistake kills a person"

lolsal11 lat temu

Why?

harshreality11 lat temu

Because the automation/robot that killed the worker is not capable of intention or even agency. "Baseball kills sportsgoer." "Golf ball kills jogger." "Mailbox kills commuter." These are sensationalist headlines that don't really mean anything. The story is in the "why".

DevPad11 lat temu

Singularity, the beginning.

betolink11 lat temu

Just got the name of the worker: John Connor