Robot attacks technician on assembly line. Maybe it’s time to implement Asimov’s three laws
A Tesla robot on the car assembly line at the Gigafactory in Texas seriously injured a company engineer due to a brutal malfunction, leaving a "trail of blood" and forcing workers to press the shutdown button. plant emergency.
The data shows that one Giga Texas worker in 21 was injured at work in 2022, this is 4.7%, and there is probably a need to review something in the operation of robots and in the training of workers and technicians. It appears that Tesla has played down or hidden these incidents.
In this latest case the robot immobilized the man, who was programming the software for two disabled Tesla robots nearby, before sinking its metal claws into the worker's back and arm, leaving a "trail of blood" along the factory surface.
The accident — which left the victim with an “open wound” on his left hand — was revealed in a 2021 injury report filed with Travis County and federal authorities.
A month ago in South Korea, a robot mistook a robot for a cardboard box and crushed it, killing it.
There are now many cases in which robots have injured workers. It is not time to include, in every form of robot, Asimov's famous laws of robotics, written for the 1950 novel I Robot, where, among other things, the term robotics is mentioned for the first time, and which state as follows:
1.A robot cannot cause harm to human beings, nor can it allow human beings to suffer harm due to its failure to intervene.
2.A robot must obey orders given by humans unless such orders conflict with the First Law.
3.A robot must safeguard its own existence, as long as this does not conflict with the First and Second Laws.
Obviously these laws would have to be adapted to the workplace, but introducing programming, at a global level, that makes a robot check several times that it is not dealing with a living being would save numerous lives.
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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/robot-attacca-tecnico-sulla-linea-di-montaggio-forse-e-tempo-di-implementare-le-tre-leggi-di-asimov/ on Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:30:48 +0000.