Random Scary Real Life Robot Attacks (13 items)

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  (#6) A Robot Crushed a Man and Deleted the Evidence

  In 2006 a robotic workstation at Alliance Tech Systems went berserk on one of their employees. The robot, known as the “degator” pinned the man up against its own frame and crushed him. The man was found in a chokehold of sorts, pinned up against the degator, with his arm stretched out reaching for the reset button.

  Further upping the creep factor of this story, testing of the robot showed there were no malfunctions in any of its movements and there was no memory in its computer.
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  (#12) A Palletizer Squeezed a Woman to Death

  In July 2009 a woman was operating a robotic palletizer at Golden State Foods, Inc. While the machine was still running, she entered the caged robot cell - the arms of the palletizer reached for her instead of the boxes on the conveyer. It crushed her torso, killing her.
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  (#9) Employee Dies After Being Beaten by Robotic Arm

  In May 2007, an employee of Lenco, Inc. was trying to repair a robotic arm designed to remove CD cases from an injection-molding machine. The robot lashed out violently, circling its arm around to assault the man. He suffered blunt force trauma to his ribs and skull and died two weeks later in the hospital.
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  (#10) The Man-Crushing Alvey Machine

  An Alvey machine at Colorado's Blueshift Industrial brutalized a construction contractor who had been hired, ironically enough, to install platforms allowing safer access to the machinery.

  The Alvey machine is a robot used in the distribution of packaged products and consists of four main components: the computer, the carousel, the Inserter and Extruder car, and a system of conveyors. As the contractor was working, the Extruder car struck him; he feel approximately 10 feet, and got caught in the main path between the Inserter and Extruder cars, which ran him over and crushed his head, killing him.
  
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  (#13) The Sneak Attack Robot

  Tragedy struck a 38-year-old man at Sodecia Sterling Heights in December 2012. He was turning to leave the robot work cell when a transfer robot struck him from behind. It crushed both his neck and his chest, killing him instantly.
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  (#3) The Kawasaki Robot Rebellion in Japan

  Back in December 1981, an engineer named Kenji Urada was trying to fix a robot at the Kawasaki Heavy Industrial Plant in Japan, when it suddenly turned on him. The mechanical beast activated itself and used its hydraulic arm to shove Urada into the grinding machine.

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