Brianna Herlihy
FOX NEWS
Thu, December 28, 2023
A Tesla engineer was reportedly a victim of a bloody attack by a robot at a factory near Austin, Texas.
Recent reports revealed a 2021 injury report that claims a robot designed to move aluminum car parts pinned the engineer against a surface and dug its metal claws into his back and arm, according to witnesses who spoke to The Information in a story published last month.
After another worker hit an emergency stop button, the engineer maneuvered his way out of the robot’s grasp, falling a couple of feet down a chute designed to collect scrap aluminum and leaving a trail of blood behind him, one of the witnesses told The Information.
The attack reportedly occurred while the engineer was programming software for two disabled Tesla robots nearby.
TESLA'S OPTIMUS ROBOT FUSES SELF-DRIVING TECH WITH MIND-BLOWING HUMANLIKE CAPABILITIES
In 2022, the Tesla Texas gigafactory was subject to a federal investigation for failing to pay workers holiday, overtime and other earned wages.
Staff attorney Hannah Alexander of the Workers Defense Project told a local news outlet the unpaid wages range from a few thousand to tens of thousands of dollars.
"For a corporation, a hundred, a thousand or ten thousand is nothing. For a community, that is rent, the groceries for the week, the difference between paying the utilities or not," Virginia Badillo, a Workers Defense Project board member, said during a press conference last year.
The group filed complaints with the U.S. Labor Department and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), alleging contractors and subcontractors gave some workers fake safety certificates.
"Workers report that when they needed training, they were simply sent PDF files or images of certificates through text or WhatsApp in a matter of days when there’s no conceivable way workers could have even taken the training required," Alexander told KXAN news.
Thu, December 28, 2023
A Tesla engineer was reportedly a victim of a bloody attack by a robot at a factory near Austin, Texas.
Recent reports revealed a 2021 injury report that claims a robot designed to move aluminum car parts pinned the engineer against a surface and dug its metal claws into his back and arm, according to witnesses who spoke to The Information in a story published last month.
After another worker hit an emergency stop button, the engineer maneuvered his way out of the robot’s grasp, falling a couple of feet down a chute designed to collect scrap aluminum and leaving a trail of blood behind him, one of the witnesses told The Information.
The attack reportedly occurred while the engineer was programming software for two disabled Tesla robots nearby.
TESLA'S OPTIMUS ROBOT FUSES SELF-DRIVING TECH WITH MIND-BLOWING HUMANLIKE CAPABILITIES
In 2022, the Tesla Texas gigafactory was subject to a federal investigation for failing to pay workers holiday, overtime and other earned wages.
Staff attorney Hannah Alexander of the Workers Defense Project told a local news outlet the unpaid wages range from a few thousand to tens of thousands of dollars.
"For a corporation, a hundred, a thousand or ten thousand is nothing. For a community, that is rent, the groceries for the week, the difference between paying the utilities or not," Virginia Badillo, a Workers Defense Project board member, said during a press conference last year.
The group filed complaints with the U.S. Labor Department and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), alleging contractors and subcontractors gave some workers fake safety certificates.
"Workers report that when they needed training, they were simply sent PDF files or images of certificates through text or WhatsApp in a matter of days when there’s no conceivable way workers could have even taken the training required," Alexander told KXAN news.
Tesla robot malfunctions, brutally attacks engineer
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Robots are the future, yet, many warn that the technology is a danger to humans. Lending weight to this warning, in a shocking incident, at Tesla's Giga Texas factory near Austin, a malfunctioning robot reportedly attacked an engineer.
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Tesla engineer attacked by robot at company’s Giga Texas factory, report says
Maroosha Muzaffar
INDEPENDENT UK
Wed, December 27, 2023
A Tesla engineer at the company’s factory near Austin was allegedly attacked by a robot in 2021, according to an incident report filed with regulators.
Witnesses allegedly observed the robot at the Giga Texas factory pin the engineer and claw at his back and arm, causing a “trail of blood” on the factory floor, according to the 2021 injury report filed to Travis county and federal regulators, which was reviewed by DailyMail.com.
The robot reportedly immobilised the engineer and left the victim with an “open wound” on his left hand.
The robot was designed to handle freshly-cast aluminium car parts.
The Independent has contacted Tesla for comment.
The engineer was able to break free from the assembly robot after a colleague pressed the emergency stop button. Upon being released, the engineer reportedly tumbled a few feet down a chute intended for collecting scrap aluminium, leaving a trail of blood.
According to reports, Tesla said the engineer’s injuries did not require him to take any time off work.
Tesla has faced criticism for its handling of workplace safety and accident reporting. At the Giga Texas plant, data has shown a higher rate of injuries compared to industry averages. In cases of severe on-the-job injuries, the ratio was one in every 26 workers at the Tesla Giga Texas plant compared to one in 38 workers at other major US auto factories.
A Tesla engineer at the company’s factory near Austin was allegedly attacked by a robot in 2021, according to an incident report filed with regulators.
Witnesses allegedly observed the robot at the Giga Texas factory pin the engineer and claw at his back and arm, causing a “trail of blood” on the factory floor, according to the 2021 injury report filed to Travis county and federal regulators, which was reviewed by DailyMail.com.
The robot reportedly immobilised the engineer and left the victim with an “open wound” on his left hand.
The robot was designed to handle freshly-cast aluminium car parts.
The Independent has contacted Tesla for comment.
The engineer was able to break free from the assembly robot after a colleague pressed the emergency stop button. Upon being released, the engineer reportedly tumbled a few feet down a chute intended for collecting scrap aluminium, leaving a trail of blood.
According to reports, Tesla said the engineer’s injuries did not require him to take any time off work.
Tesla has faced criticism for its handling of workplace safety and accident reporting. At the Giga Texas plant, data has shown a higher rate of injuries compared to industry averages. In cases of severe on-the-job injuries, the ratio was one in every 26 workers at the Tesla Giga Texas plant compared to one in 38 workers at other major US auto factories.
Tesla robot attacks auto worker
Queen City News
1 day ago
A worker was attacked while making a software update on 2 other robots. The other robot was still turned on when it attacked. Chief Transportation Correspondent Maycay Beeler breaks down how this happened and the future of robots.
Tesla Engineer Injured in Bloody Robot Attack at Texas Factory
Cassidy Ward
SYFY
Wed, December 27, 2023
Before Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza was the setting for one the most successful modern video game franchises – Five Nights at Freddy’s – and a Hollywood movie adaptation (streaming now on Peacock!), it was the site of a series of grizzly in-game murders. Those killings, always of abducted children, were never solved. Their bodies left to decay in and their souls left to meld with the animatronic characters that call Freddy’s home.
Those robots, now imbued with all of the twisted and hateful desires of the unsatisfied dead, exact their vengeance on anyone within snatching distance. Of course, that’s all just an entertaining fiction. Real world robots don’t have motives except for the ones we give them, and they don’t attack people without warning. At least, they shouldn’t, but that’s just what happened at a Tesla factory in Texas.
Wed, December 27, 2023
Before Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza was the setting for one the most successful modern video game franchises – Five Nights at Freddy’s – and a Hollywood movie adaptation (streaming now on Peacock!), it was the site of a series of grizzly in-game murders. Those killings, always of abducted children, were never solved. Their bodies left to decay in and their souls left to meld with the animatronic characters that call Freddy’s home.
Those robots, now imbued with all of the twisted and hateful desires of the unsatisfied dead, exact their vengeance on anyone within snatching distance. Of course, that’s all just an entertaining fiction. Real world robots don’t have motives except for the ones we give them, and they don’t attack people without warning. At least, they shouldn’t, but that’s just what happened at a Tesla factory in Texas.
Tesla Engineer Attacked by Robot’s Metal Claws
The incident occurred back in 2021 at the Giga Texas Tesla factory near Austin, Texas, according to a report from News Nation. The accident happened in part of the factory where freshly pressed aluminum car parts come off the line.
New parts begin as thin sheets of aluminum which are then cast in molds to achieve the desired shape. When parts come out of those molds, they still have the leftover edges of the aluminum sheet sticking off the sides. These extra bits, called flashing, have to be removed and that’s where the robots come in. A trio of robots are responsible for removing new parts from their aluminum cages with their gripping metal claws.
Engineers were working in the area, updating software which controls the robots, when the attack took place. Two of the robots were turned off but a third remained active and continued its normal operations. Witnesses reported that the robot dug its claws into the back and arm of an engineer, leaving a “trail of blood” in its wake, via The Information.
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Tesla is required to report all injuries to the state and Travis County in order to continue receiving tax breaks, and the incident report for the 2021 robot attack was reviewed by the Daily Mail. According to the report, the incident left the engineer with an open wound on their hand, but the injuries did not require any time off.
Injuries at the Texas factory are more common than average by industry standards. According to reports, roughly 1 in 21 employees were injured at the Giga Texas factory in 2022, compared to 1 in 30 across the automotive industry, according to the New York Post. The dangers inherent in increased human-robot interactions are a growing concern for roboticists who are scrambling to develop better systems to prevent exactly this sort of accident.
In the meantime, it’s up to us to see the gaps the robots can’t see if we want to keep ourselves (and the employees we are responsible for) safe. Otherwise, in life as in Five Nights at Freddy’s, we will be the architects of our own robotic nightmare.
Robot attacks worker
KTSM 9 NEWS
Dec 28, 2023
A Tesla engineer was reportedly attacked by a robot at a factory near Austin.
Elon Musk rips media reports of robot 'attack' in Tesla's Texas factory
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
Business Insider
Wed, December 27, 2023
Elon Musk isn't happy with how the media has covered an accident involving his factory's robots.
"Truly shameful of the media to dredge up an injury from two years ago," Musk wrote on X.
Musk said the reports falsely implied that the accident was due to his humanoid Optimus robots.
Elon Musk has slammed recent media reports of a robot "attack" in a Tesla factory in Austin.
"Truly shameful of the media to dredge up an injury from two years ago due to a simple industrial Kuka robot arm (found in all factories) and imply that it is due to Optimus now," Musk wrote in an X post on Wednesday.
The Tesla CEO was responding to an X user who'd shared a Daily Mail report from Tuesday about a factory robot incident in 2021.
The Information had also covered the incident in a story published last month. According to the outlet, two witnesses said that an engineer was running software updates on the factory's robots when he was grabbed and pinned against the surface by one of the machines.
The witnesses also said that the engineer was left bleeding after the robot had sunk its claws into his body. The engineer eventually escaped the robot's clutches when another worker pressed the emergency stop button, per The Information.
Musk's ire at the Daily Mail's post, however, appears to be at the outlet's framing of the accident. The Daily Mail's story used a thumbnail featuring Tesla's humanoid Optimus robots — not the Kuka robot arm that was involved in the 2021 incident.
Musk's defense of the Optimus robots will come as no surprise as he has high hopes for them. When he unveiled them last year, he said the economy could become "quasi-infinite" if the Optimus robots were capable of manual labor.
"This means a future of abundance. A future where there is no poverty, where you could have whatever you want in terms of products and services," Musk said then.
Safety complaints, however, have long dogged Musk's Tesla factories. In 2020, California regulators said Tesla had sent them incomplete factory injury reports.
And it's not just the US. Recently, in April, Chinese inspectors said they wanted to punish the company for safety weaknesses, per Caixin Global. According to the report, a Tesla factory worker in Shanghai died after getting crushed by factory equipment.
In October, Tesla rejected claims from a German union and the country's media outlets that the Berlin Gigfactory lacked proper safety provisions.
Representatives for Tesla and Kuka did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.
Wed, December 27, 2023
Elon Musk isn't happy with how the media has covered an accident involving his factory's robots.
"Truly shameful of the media to dredge up an injury from two years ago," Musk wrote on X.
Musk said the reports falsely implied that the accident was due to his humanoid Optimus robots.
Elon Musk has slammed recent media reports of a robot "attack" in a Tesla factory in Austin.
"Truly shameful of the media to dredge up an injury from two years ago due to a simple industrial Kuka robot arm (found in all factories) and imply that it is due to Optimus now," Musk wrote in an X post on Wednesday.
The Tesla CEO was responding to an X user who'd shared a Daily Mail report from Tuesday about a factory robot incident in 2021.
The Information had also covered the incident in a story published last month. According to the outlet, two witnesses said that an engineer was running software updates on the factory's robots when he was grabbed and pinned against the surface by one of the machines.
The witnesses also said that the engineer was left bleeding after the robot had sunk its claws into his body. The engineer eventually escaped the robot's clutches when another worker pressed the emergency stop button, per The Information.
Musk's ire at the Daily Mail's post, however, appears to be at the outlet's framing of the accident. The Daily Mail's story used a thumbnail featuring Tesla's humanoid Optimus robots — not the Kuka robot arm that was involved in the 2021 incident.
Musk's defense of the Optimus robots will come as no surprise as he has high hopes for them. When he unveiled them last year, he said the economy could become "quasi-infinite" if the Optimus robots were capable of manual labor.
"This means a future of abundance. A future where there is no poverty, where you could have whatever you want in terms of products and services," Musk said then.
Safety complaints, however, have long dogged Musk's Tesla factories. In 2020, California regulators said Tesla had sent them incomplete factory injury reports.
And it's not just the US. Recently, in April, Chinese inspectors said they wanted to punish the company for safety weaknesses, per Caixin Global. According to the report, a Tesla factory worker in Shanghai died after getting crushed by factory equipment.
In October, Tesla rejected claims from a German union and the country's media outlets that the Berlin Gigfactory lacked proper safety provisions.
Representatives for Tesla and Kuka did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.
Kirk Douglas Fights Evil Robot - Saturn 3 (1980)
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Adam (Kirk Douglas) and Alex (Farrah Fawcett) are two scientists stationed deep beneath the barren surface of Saturn's third moon, Titan. They live together in idyllic isolation in a space-age Eden, seeking new forms of food for an exhausted planet Earth. Their perfect world is interrupted when Benson (Harvey Keitel) arrives as Saturn goes into eclipse and cuts off communication with the rest of the solar system. Aided by his 'helper robot' Hector, James reduces life to one single purpose...survival. The robot becomes violently unmanageable. For Adam and Alex, their only hope is to flee, but the homicidal robot stands in their way. Produced and directed by legendary filmmaker Stanley Donen (Singin' In The Rain, Charade and Seven Brides For Seven Brothers), Saturn 3 is a pulse-pounding study in sci-fi suspense!
Saturn 3 - Rare Deleted Scene
This video contains an extended scene that was not shown in the theatrical version of the film. Adam (Kirk Douglas) takes the robot, Hector, outside to try to teach him a few things while Alex (Farrah Fawcett) fends off advances by James/Benson (Harvey Keitel) The video includes portions shown in the theatrical version at the beginning and end of the clip to help place this scene in perspective.
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