Robot at a Volkswagen plant killed a man

Conveyor robotic arm grabbed repair company employee and struck him on the metal plate. Work has died in hospital from his injuries. Work during the incident was inside the cell, separating the robot from the people, writes Financial Times .

Almost five thousand retweets received a message journalist Sarah O'Connor, who wrote about the tragedy.

A robot has killed a worker in a VW plant in Germany http://t.co/RRdCnNmbsj - Sarah O'Connor ( sarahoconnor_) July 1, 2015 blockquote>
The first human death from the robot is fixed at the factory in 1979. 25-year-old worker assembly plant in Michigan Ford was killed by a blow on the head manipulator. Family workers were ten million dollars compensation. The cause of the tragedy was the failure to comply with safety regulations.

An employee of the repair company on the Volkswagen plant was inside a special cell, and set up the robot. 21-year-old man was hit in the chest and was pinned to the steel plate. A man was hospitalized, but doctors could not save him - he died in hospital. The second employee was outside the cell and was not injured.

A spokesman for Volkswagen said that the robot was not one of the new generation of light robots capable of working side by side with the people on the line without the use of special cells to prevent human contact.

The prosecutor's office launched an investigation.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/252870/