On this day in 1979, a factory worker was killed by a robot. Robert Nicholas Williams climbed into a shelving unit to investigate an assembly-line malfunction, where he was struck in the head by an industrial robot and killed. The incident was the first recorded instance of a person being killed by a robot, and it broke science-fiction author Isaac Asimov's first law of robotics: “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
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On this day in 1979, a factory worker was killed by a robot. Robert Nicholas Williams climbed into a shelving unit to investigate an assembly-line malfunction, where he was struck in the head by an industrial robot and killed. The incident was the first recorded instance of a person being killed by a robot, and it broke science-fiction author Isaac Asimov's first law of robotics: “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
Britannica
On this day in 1979, a factory worker was killed by a robot. Robert Nicholas Williams climbed into a shelving unit to investigate an assembly-line malfunction, where he was struck in the head by an industrial robot and killed. The incident was the first recorded instance of a person being killed by a robot, and it broke science-fiction author Isaac Asimov's first law of robotics: “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
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