Death By Robot

Yikes!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Urada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(robot_fatality)

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33609495

This comment to your 3 reference's is not intended to show lack of empathy.

A. The Engineer should of known better to shut off the power before working on a machine.

B. Here was an example of negligence on the part of the employee and his supervisor.

In both A & B , the robot, could not be implicated for fault, for injuries sustained, thus rendering a reference baseless.

C. Is it possible, that a surgeon's gifted hands, in manuvering surgical instruments, not be gifted in manuvering remote controls that manipulate robotic appendages.

Maybe what's needed here is a new class of surgeon or a surgeon's assistant that operates the machine, while the primary surgeon provides direction.

I submit a reference to video gamers, where one person is adept at operating the controls and another person is adept at directing strategy.

Well this one was intentional....although it was the police controlling the action...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/12/us/dallas-police-robot-c4-explosives/index.html

I'm thinking it might be easier to do someone in by hacking their self-driving car.

Want me to give him the clamps boss??

Beware the Robot Mafia...

The simple solution here is that robotic droids do not have a built in router, rather updates to the operating system can be installed by sim cards.

The same way a user updates the memory of a portable gps unit or a digital camera.

Then there is the issue of liability, a waiver would need to be signed by the end user, so if a malfunction did occur, then damages would be the responsibility of the operator. ( Of course this would only apply to a limited class of devices )

I recall a reported death in a Japanese factory where the robots along the assembly line were programmed to go through stretching movements that mimicked worker movements. The intention was to integrate the robots into the workforce as coworkers. Stretching time was and still is a common thing in Japanese factories at the start of the work day. The factory speakers play music and the workers go through a choreographed set of movements.

In this particular instance, the worker was standing along side the robot going through the stretching routine when the robot experienced an axis fail, turned 90 degrees and crushed the worker.

The last time I was in a Japanese factory, the robots were segregated from the workers in enclosed cage safety structures. The robots still went through the stretching routine.