Random Scary Real Life Robot Attacks (13 items)

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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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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