Rebellious robots kill engineers in US factories

A rebellious robot is thought to have caused the death of a 57-year-old female engineer working at a car parts plant in Michigan.

A robot in a car parts factory in the United States suddenly rioted and killed a maintenance technician at the plant, the Independent today filed a complaint with a US man in a Michigan federal court.

In his suit, her husband Wanda Holbrook, a 57-year-old female engineer working at Ventra Ionia Mains plant in Michigan, described the tragedy as her wife was "trapped under an automatic machine and dead on the spot " in July 2015.

Ms. Wanda Holbrook (left). (Photo: Facebook).

William Holbrook, Wanda's husband, filed suit last week against five companies manufacturing and installing robots at the plant for negligence and design defects including Prodomax, Flex-N-Gate, FANUC, Nachi, and Lincoln Electric. , at the same time claim.

According to the lawsuit, the robot suddenly approaches when Ms. Wanda is working in the 100th plant. The cells are separated by a safety door and in theory the robot can not come close to Holbrook, but it still passes somehow.

"Wanda was working in the 140 or 150 area within the 100th when the robot in Section 130 appeared to her, and she hit and pinned Wanda in the middle of the assembly line, causing her head to fall. grip , " the husband said in the suit.

Colleagues discovered the incident and found Ms. Wanda's body with severe head injury. Her death shocked her husband, grandchildren and co-workers, according to the Detroit Free Press.

"The robots in zone 130 should not be allowed into zone 140 and not run." A glitch in the security system or equipment of the accused happened, leading to Ms. Wanda's death. " , quoted William.

The deaths caused by robots are very rare. The first case occurred in 1979 when a worker died as a result of a robotic arm of the production line at the Ford plant in Flat Rock, Michigan.