The robotic arm crushed the man's body against a conveyor belt after mistaking him for a box. PHOTO: THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
SEOUL (AFP): A man was crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after the machine apparently failed to differentiate him from the boxes of produce it was handling, the Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday.
The man, a robotics company worker in his 40s, was inspecting the robot's sensor operations at a distribution centre for agricultural produce in South Gyeongsang province.
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