Miscellaneous

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Article "Robot Safety and You: Examples of Real-Life Accidents We Can Learn From"

by Jeff Fryman, Director, Standards Development
Robotic Industries Association
August 2, 2004

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Robot teams with illuminated car door

Published on Aug 11, 2015

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered a new way to improve human and robot safety in manufacturing scenarios by developing a method for robots to project their next action into the 3D world and onto any moving object, such as car parts on an assembly line.

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Article "SMEs need robots that know their limitations and ask for help"

by Satyandra Gupta
September 15, 2015

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A self-stopping car accident

Published on May 19, 2015

What the car company says about the incident:
"Volvo says horrible ‘self-parking car accident’ happened because driver didn’t have ‘pedestrian detection’"

by Kashmir Hill
May 26, 2015

Autonomous-braking car accident in Dominican Republic. The people hit by the car "were bruised but are are ok."

Carro con sistemas de frenado aut?nomo choca dos personas en Republica Dominicana. Las personas impactadas solo quedaron con unos cuantos 'moraditos'.

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Article "This German Machine is Hitting People to Make Tomorrow's Robots Safer"
Robots are already killing humans. Here's how one scientist is keeping people safe.

by Stefan Nicola, Olivia Solon
November 11, 2015

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Article "Collaborative robots and breaking down evolving risk assessment"

by Alexandre Pare, Robotiq Inc.
April 14, 2016