[BobL]

It has begun...

[BigFreakinToad]

yikes!!! Peter Piper died by being picked as a pack of peppers.

Sorry, too soon?

[pas]

“The man had been checking the robot’s sensor operations “ So it did not pass the checks.

[RoosterRedux]

Robot confuses man with a box of vegetables?

Did this happen in the White House...in the Oval Office, perhaps?

If so, it sounds like this robot made an honest mistake.

[aynrandfreak]

Oh, I just thought those were 8 billion vegetable boxes!

[HYPOCRACY]

We are all just boxes of fruit to our robot overlords.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It would seem the introduction of some heat/infrared sensors on these picker-bots is in order.

[PapaBear3625]

Design defect.

A robot should be able to exert enough force to do it’s particular task, and not a pound more.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Does the robot NORMALLY press boxes of peppers against a conveyer belt with enough pressure to crush a human face and chest?

[Magnum44]

[Red Badger]

The man had been checking the robot's sensor operations ahead of its test run at the pepper sorting plant ...

It failed....................

[blueunicorn6]

We are going to have to make some very hard decisions about robots.

True to form, we are trying to put off these decisions.

We have reached that point in time where robots will be given the option to kill humans.

Look at Ukraine.

Robots must not be allowed to kill humans.

What a goddamn mess.

[NavyShoe]

Sounds like a lockout/tagout violation. Safety first!

[dfwgator]

[kabar]

Charge the robot with at least manslaughter.

[bert]

Racist Black robot

[I want the USA back]

The development team is responsible for this, as well as the company that sells it.

No excuses.

Remember how car manufacturers were, and are sued for problems?

If that stifles the production and implementation of robots, so be it.

[missnry]

The worker as last heard singing the Dr. Pepper song... I’m a pepper, you’re a ...SNATCH!

[ClearCase_guy]

But there was one man who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal motherfuckers into junk. He turned it around. He brought us back from the brink. His name is Connor. John Connor.

— Kyle Reese

[fuzzylogic]

I’d consider this a ‘cobot’ (robot that works along side a human) - and this is exactly the reason you’re not seeing them here yet, they need to be developed against functional safety standards - much like aircraft, both hardware components, hardware design, as well as the software design and development processes.

It’s extremely expensive. It’s the difference between ‘making something work’ and making sure it is safe to use. It’s the same reason that robots not developed by these standards have a “safe state” which is, generally, multiple switches indicating that a gate is closed and operation can begin within a fenced area with no people.