RoboticsCritical
Robot kills worker at German Volkswagen plant
- Occurred
- Jul 15, 2014
- Published
- Jul 2, 2015
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Volkswagen plant robot "crushed to death" a worker by pinning him to a metal plate.
Developers
- Volkswagen
Deployers
- Volkswagen
Harmed parties
- Robotics Consultant
Classification
Category confidence: 100%
Severity confidence: 100%
Rationale: A physical robot caused a worker's death at an industrial facility.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8