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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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