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<\/p>\nAn industrial robot at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea crushed a worker to death, police\u00a0said.<\/p>\n
The man died of head and chest injuries on Tuesday after he was grabbed by the machine and pressed against a conveyor belt, police in Goseong said.<\/p>\n
The unidentified man was an employee of a company that installs industrial robots and was sent to the plant to examine whether the machine was working properly.<\/p>\n
Officials say an investigation is underway as to whether the device was unsafe or had potential defects.<\/p>\n
It is one of two robots used at the facility that packages vegetables exported to other Asian countries.<\/p>\n
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Kang Jin-gi, the head of the investigations department at Goseong Police Station, said: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t an advanced, artificial intelligence-powered robot, but a machine that simply picks up boxes and puts them on pallets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another police official said investigators were looking into the possibility of human error in the robot, whose sensors are designed to identify boxes.<\/p>\n
Security camera footage from the incident shows the man had moved near the robot with a box in his hands, which caused the machine\u2019s reaction, the official said.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIt\u2019s clearly not a case where a robot confused a human with a box – this wasn\u2019t a very sophisticated machine.\u201d<\/p>\n
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