Stacking robot fatally crushes employee in South Korea
November 8, 2023
An industrial robot is reported to have crushed a man to death in South Korea when it failed to differentiate the man from the boxes of produce it was handling.
- Alleged deployer
- unnamed-south-gyeongsang-province-produce-distribution-center
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- unnamed-employee-of-south-gyeongsang-province-produce-distribution-center
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/599
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.