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Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him — Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant::Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician's death at Korean food plant

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[–] schmidtster 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What model of arm was being used here? Because the article makes no mention and actually talks about a robot, so that sounds like something else than this “arm” you speak of.

There are more to robots than just “robotic arms”…. And to claim that those all have the features of a very specific model is quite frankly asinine.

[–] Eranziel 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In any industrial context, a "robot" is short for robotic arm. Those things you see in footage of automotive factories.

They also don't have any kind of AI. It's just a regular (if specialized) computer in control.

[–] schmidtster 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s just unequivocally wrong a robot is any complicated machine that can do a task. A palletizer is a type of robot and has zero arms.

And yeah they can have Ai or not, don’t change well established industry definitions to fit your narrative….