Actually, there seems to be a good deal less to the story than meets the eye. I’ll boldface what I mean by that.
Tesla Robot Suffers Malfunctions and Attacks Engineer at Texas Factory, Leaving ‘Trail of Blood’
A robotic malfunction at Tesla’s Giga Texas factory resulted in a violent encounter where an engineer was attacked by one of the company’s robots, resulting in significant injuries and leaving a ‘trail of blood.’According to the Daily Mail, while working on software programming for non-functional Tesla robots, the engineer was suddenly pinned against a surface by a robot tasked with manipulating aluminum car components, with its metal claws inflicted an injury that left an ‘open wound’ on the worker’s left hand.
“Two of the robots, which cut car parts from freshly cast pieces of aluminum, were disabled so the engineer and his teammates could safely work on the machines. A third one, which grabbed and moved the car parts, was inadvertently left operational, according to two people who watched it happen. As that robot ran through its normal motions, it pinned the engineer against a surface, pushing its claws into his body and drawing blood from his back and his arm, the two people said,” The Information reported.
Quick action was taken by Tesla workers who intervened and triggered the emergency shutdown button to halt the malfunctioning robot and prevent further injury to the engineer.
Um, sorry, but the robot was NOT “malfunctioning” at all. One of the stupid humans neglected to switch it off before performing what sounds to me like routine maintenance, then got in its way as it carried on with “its normal motions,” that’s all. It’s way more dramatic and upsetting to report it the other way, so that’s what they ran with, natch. Remember: for today’s über-sensationalist media, if it bleeds, it leads. And sometimes, even if it doesn’t really bleed all that much.
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What, no lock-out tag-out procedures? Or did AI defeat them? >}:-D
Could we get some details on the billions who were slaughtered or are slated to be slaughtered? Depending on who we’re talking about, I might not object.
“…I might not object.”
Nor I.
I’d say it probably will depend on just how smart Skynet really is, Steve. Or, y’know, is NOT.
Shows the importance of following lock-out tag-out procedures, understanding when to use them, and knowing that they exist for a reason…
I knew as soon as my bride read me the “headline” it was bullshit.
This is a case of human malfunction, nothing more.
Yup – nothingburger. For now.
Musk speaks out, the “story” is old news and it was a common manufacturing robotic arm, not the Musk robots.
Elon Musk and The Truth
They go after the ones they fear the most. At the top of the list is Trump, followed closely by Musk.
Plus, the person working on it left the “robot” in the ON position and so as they worked on it enough it simply began functioning normally. It didn’t “attack” anyone or anything.