Depending on the type of robot and application, the torque limits may be way higher than what it takes to crush a human being. It’s not for shits and giggles that most robots are put in cages/behind barriers. Positions are probably also a lot more static/predefined than you’d expect.
I work with a lot of small robots (they fit on a desk) and they will absolute smash the living shit out of you if they’re not set to low enough. Even on lowest torque they can break bones. Obviously they’re caged when used in production environments, but all safety can (and often will) be circumvented by staff because it’s inconvenient for them.
Dumb people always think humans are as robust as action stars in a movie, when in reality, even in 3D printing with plastic, YOU are the softest and most burnable thing around unless you’re doing something very wrong. In anything truly serious like metal work or moving even semi-heavy objects, the forces and temperatures just get worse, and worse, and worse.
It only takes getting to the scale of a car (1-2 tons) and suddenly people are dying with any accident that can turn lethal. It always amazes me when people get flippant towards industrial scale things, because it’s so much worse than car scale.
Not to imply this guy did anything wrong. Besides maybe not powering the thing off completely and tagging out the controls. Though in many places, the corpos make proper procedure so effing difficult to follow if they even train you on it.
Depending on the type of robot and application, the torque limits may be way higher than what it takes to crush a human being. It’s not for shits and giggles that most robots are put in cages/behind barriers. Positions are probably also a lot more static/predefined than you’d expect.
I work with a lot of small robots (they fit on a desk) and they will absolute smash the living shit out of you if they’re not set to low enough. Even on lowest torque they can break bones. Obviously they’re caged when used in production environments, but all safety can (and often will) be circumvented by staff because it’s inconvenient for them.
Dumb people always think humans are as robust as action stars in a movie, when in reality, even in 3D printing with plastic, YOU are the softest and most burnable thing around unless you’re doing something very wrong. In anything truly serious like metal work or moving even semi-heavy objects, the forces and temperatures just get worse, and worse, and worse.
It only takes getting to the scale of a car (1-2 tons) and suddenly people are dying with any accident that can turn lethal. It always amazes me when people get flippant towards industrial scale things, because it’s so much worse than car scale.
Not to imply this guy did anything wrong. Besides maybe not powering the thing off completely and tagging out the controls. Though in many places, the corpos make proper procedure so effing difficult to follow if they even train you on it.