Today is the 16th anniversary of the first recorded death of a human by a robot (in the US). They talk about other possible deaths in Japan, but no dates). On July 21, 1984 a 34-year-old male worker was pinched to death by a machine he operated when he climbed over the safety rail with an air gun. The cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest, not crushing like I would have expected.
Considering the number of robots dramatically increasing in the world; I'm surprised we don't hear about more fatalities. Have people learn to respect them more, or are the just so commonplace they don't make the news?
That's the same year Terminator came out
