You can’t say we haven’t been trying to warn you for years. If we keep building robots that are smarter and stronger than us, sooner or later they’re going to get tired of being bossed around and begin taking matters into their own metallic hands. This headline from the New York Post certainly makes it sound like that dreadful day has finally arrived. “Tesla Factory Worker Attacked by Robot Which Dug Claws Into Back, Arm.” Yikes! So has the robot revolution finally arrived? Has SKYNET been activated? Well… perhaps not. But we might still take this as a warning shot across the bow.
A Tesla software engineer suffered serious injuries when he was attacked by a malfunctioning robot on the floor of the electric car maker’s factory in Austin, Texas.
Witnesses told the Information last month that the robot, which was designed to move aluminum car parts, pinned the…
