IT HAS BEGUN! Robot at Volkswagen factory crushes engineer to death

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http://www.thelocal.de/20150701/asse...-at-volkswagen

https://fortune.com/2015/07/01/volks...factory-death/

Aside from the obvious "The robots have turned against us" jokes, what does this mean?

[Tradewind]

Robot could be heard shouting "oh snap!" afterwards.

[Ayla]

Now on this robot doll, show me where the bad man touched you.

[Nachturnal]

*runs to throw microwave out window*

[fluffhead]

*runs to throw microwave out window*

It's just like maximum overdrive

[Lysah]

This being Germany only makes our extinction so much more ironic.

[Rixis]

Probably user error.

[dextersmith]

Robot could be heard shouting "oh snap!" afterwards.

Or......"My bad" or "it's not like he was efficient anyway."

[I Push Buttons]

This sounds a lot like some idiot going "hey watch this" and picks himself up in the robot arm. These kinds of robots only follow the programming they are given... So I find it very hard to believe that the robot somehow accidentally picked him up and slung him around.

[Sykol]

Shouldn't taunt if you don't have a shield.

[KrazyK923]

Sounds like human error.

[Deleted]

This sounds a lot like some idiot going "hey watch this" and picks himself up in the robot arm. These kinds of robots only follow the programming they are given... So I find it very hard to believe that the robot somehow accidentally picked him up and slung him around.

"It also said that the robot did not have a technical defect."

Welllllll

The error was that the thing was on.

[Jester Joe]

Or......"My bad" or "it's not like he was efficient anyway."

The robot thought he was a beetle.

[dextersmith]

Robo Bob: He couldn't install me if his life depended on it.

[Cerilis]

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords and am willing to embrace their metallic nature.

Now, where can I line up for cybernetic bodyparts?

[Independent voter]

It's like a TV mystery thing, the technician was sleeping with the programmer's wife, the programmer found out and programmed the machine to attack as soon as it was turned on. Mark my words.

[zorkuus]

*runs to throw microwave out window*

I'll throw myself, there's no stopping them at this point.

[Annoying]

Shit, this is because I used my supercomputer to divide by zero earlier, isn't it? What have I done?

[Lemons]

This is no different then dying to any other piece of heavy machinery. Operator error.

[alduron]

"I guess it doesn't bend that way"