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Re:Robot Kills Man at Volkswagen Plant by 11thEarlOfMar on Thursday July 02, 2015 @12:37PM (#9819990)
This is Hacker News. We know the difference between robotics and automation.

Industrial automation such as this has been killing absent minded technicians for years, as early as 1979:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7KMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Bu8F...

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Re:Robot Kills Man at Volkswagen Plant by betolink on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:43AM (#9819624)
It should say "A programmer's mistake kills a person"
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Re:Robot Kills Man at Volkswagen Plant by lolsal on Thursday July 02, 2015 @01:17PM (#9820238)
Why?
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Re:Robot Kills Man at Volkswagen Plant by harshreality on Thursday July 02, 2015 @01:30PM (#9820325)
Because the automation/robot that killed the worker is not capable of intention or even agency. "Baseball kills sportsgoer." "Golf ball kills jogger." "Mailbox kills commuter." These are sensationalist headlines that don't really mean anything. The story is in the "why".
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Re:Robot Kills Man at Volkswagen Plant by DevPad on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:58AM (#9819728)
Singularity, the beginning.
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Re:Robot Kills Man at Volkswagen Plant by betolink on Thursday July 02, 2015 @06:41PM (#9822224)
Just got the name of the worker: John Connor
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