Random Scary Real Life Robot Attacks (13 items)

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  (#1) Robot Surgeons Killed 144 People Between 2000 and 2013

  Adopting the use of robots for surgical procedures has become a widespread practice over the years and as with any surgical procedure, there are risks of complications and even death. A study carried out between 2000 and 2013 for the FDA calculated that during surgeries there have been 144 deaths, 1,391 injuries, and 8,061 robotic malfunctions.

  One of those deaths and 119 injuries were caused by pieces of the robots actually falling off and landing inside patients during the procedures. Two deaths and 52 injuries were caused by the robotic surgeon powering itself off or making miscalculated moves, and a whopping 193 injuries were the result of electrical sparks from the robo-surgeons burning the patients.
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  (#2) Ford Motors Assembly Line Robot Was the First to Kill

  Robert Williams was the first person in history to be killed by a robot, in January 1979. He was working on the Ford Motor Company casting plant line when the parts retrieval robot started to slow down. Williams decided to attempt to manually retrieve the parts when the 1-ton robotic arm lunged out and struck him across the head. He died 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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  (#4) A Robot Grabbed and Crushed a Man Working at a VW Plant

  In July 2015, at a Volkswagen Production Plant, a robot designed to grab and configure auto parts malfunctioned and attacked a 22-year-old man instead. The crazed robot grabbed him, picked him up, and crushed him up against a metal plate. The man suffered severe chest injuries and died in the hospital.
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  (#5) A Robotic Cannon Went on a Rampage in South Africa

  In October 2007 on the North Cape of Africa, a robotic cannon went on a rampage. This anti-aircraft cannon suddenly launched its own attack against the South African National Defense force. It emptied out its twin 250-round auto-loader magazines completely unprovoked, killing nine soldiers and wounding 14 more who struggled to get it under control.
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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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  (#7) A Robot Turned Psycho-Killer on a Man in India

  In August 2015, Ramji Lal, 24, was working at SKH Metals in India when a robot killed him. The robot was preprogrammed to weld metal sheets, but while Lal was adjusting one of those sheets, the robot just shot out a welding arm, stabbed him in the stomach, and electrocuted him.
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  (#8) Robot Attacked a Factory Worker in Sweden

  In June 2007, an industrial robot attacked and almost killed a man in Sweden. He thought he had successfully cut of power to the robots, which were used for relocating giant rocks, and approached the machines to carry out his maintenance work. Suddenly, they whirred to life and one put his head in a vice grip. He struggled to free himself and sustained quite a few injuries (including four broken ribs), but made it out alive.
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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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  (#11) The Robotic Strangler

  In December 2001 at Jr. Wheel Inc., an employee was tidying up before clocking out for the day. He made his way into a robot cell when the machinery booted up, snatched him by the neck, pinned him under a wheel rim, and asphyxiated him.
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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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  (#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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