Robot attacked Tesla engineer at Texas factory: Report

A Tesla engineer was allegedly attacked by a robot at a factory near Austin, according to media reports. The 2021 injury report claims the robot, which was designed to move aluminum car parts, dug its metal claws into the engineer’s back and arm, leaving a “trail of blood,” according to witnesses who spoke with the Information in a story published last month. Chief Transportation Correspondent Maycay Beeler breaks down how this happened and the future of robots.

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[TheReal_BallzBDragon]

Im in maintenance myself, if i forget to disable a steam boiler before working on it, it will kill me. This is just blatant fear mongering.

[offwegonow]

She says, “You can’t make this stuff up, ” but for the most part, they did.

[merlenelson]

She said, "can't make this stuff up", then proceeds to make most of it up.

It was an industrial accident.

[ari-m.]

As someone that works in robotics, the level of ignorance between those two "reporters" is mind numbing.

[davida]

Whoever wrote the script to this really had an imagination.

[tonyi.]

And reporters like these two are the ones who will create chaos when real events start happening.

[Valeran]

They literally say we can't make this up while making it up. A person was injured by a machine through his own incompetence.

[PaulYau]

this report shows how poor the station is doing, no fact check at all

[KittyCarson]

This is absolutely hysterical! This happened 20 years ago at a Ford plant in Louisville Kentucky when they were automating the paint dept.
It was tracked back to a line worker that was tech savvy.

[mrmja]

If you dont lock and tag out moving robotics you can get hurt or killed. Its not because its got its own intentions, its because you're not following proper procedures.

[dattajack]

Media outlets need to start being held accountable for libel for misreporting.

[manfrummt]

Calling it "an attack", is like calling a tractor accident an attack. It's a machine. If you burn your finger in the toaster, it wasn't an attack. C'mon.

[wyattgunter]

The robot (arm) did not malfunction… It was doing the job that it was programmed to do. They’re almost like broken record players. They continuously do the same thing over and over. Regardless of anything around them, unless they have sensors. I work with robots everyday and they all have sensor fields. If you trip the sensor they lock up until everything is clear of the sensors and you manually restart it. I would assume the assembly line robots don’t have that feature for whatever valid reason. I wish there was a way to punish these news companies for their terrorist like behavior that creates panic among the uneducated masses.

[arubaguy]

Robots do not "decide to attack". They move as programmed. The guy obviously did not lock it out properly. Industrial robots are extremely strong and robust so they can work thousands of hours without breakdowns. I have seen a car-painting robot malfunction and lift and throw a car body off the conveyor and into a wall when something in it's "arm" went awry. It did not turn into "The Terminator" as these news-readers suggested.

[alanblyde]

I’d be embarrassed to even be a report on that, talk about sensationalism 🙄

[jaytony]

I work in an almost identical factory for the same company and with the same robots. To say the robot attacked someone is like saying a bus attacked a pedestrian... It wasn't an attack... The robot was left enabled, it ran through its preprogrammed sequence and the guy got hit... sheesh!
To see an actual robot attack a person look up "Ash attacks Ripley"... THAT'S an attack.

[SkylarHinrichs]

This is an example of deeply irresponsible journalism.

[VinnyVinceViper]

Will I have nightmares about robots coming "alive"? NO
Will I have nightmares about the blonde reporter's face? YES

[robertlane]

Whoever decided to present this as an "attack" deserves to be fired and barred from journalism for life! We have seen some real poor journalism over the last several years, but this is at the absolute bottom of the barrel. They should all be ashamed of their stupidity.

[FiveStarzz]

I love when people say “you can’t make this up” and you literally can