Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by jrumbut on Sunday July 24, 2022 @03:11AM
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You would think that much force would lead to broken actuators and chess pieces often enough during development that someone would land on the idea of setting an upper limit on all forces just to save money.
Relying on a human is the last option, not the default, when it comes to safety. Human adaptability is not a licence to hand-wave away design responsibility. The most glaring example is Tesla, who is unforgivably guilty of this.
This is bog-standard competent engineering in almost all domains of engineering. It is the table stakes-level expectation of a reasonable approach to safety. I'd literally end up in jail if something went wrong and I had been found to not consider these factors.
Software- and computer-related domains of engineering are a conspicuous outlier when it comes to this philosophy.