When Tesla robot attacked an engineer at the company's Texas factory

A

Tesla

engineer was reportedly attacked by an

assembly robot

after it suffered a malfunction at the company's

Giga Texas factory

near Austin in the US. According to a report in the Daily Mail, quoting an injury report, two employees watched in horror as their fellow employee was attacked by the robot. The robot that attacked was designed to grab and move freshly cast aluminium car parts.

How the attack took place
The robot reportedly pinned the man, who was then programming software for two disabled Tesla robots nearby. He then sank its metal claws into the worker's back and arm, leaving a 'trail of blood' along the factory surface. The incident is said to have left the victim with an 'open wound' on his left hand. The attack occurred in 2021 and was revealed in an injury report report filed to Travis county and federal regulators. DailyMail.com claims to have reviewed the report.
The report further adds that as the bleeding Tesla engineer attempted to wrestle free from the assembly robot’s grasp, a fellow worker hit an emergency ‘stop’ button. Once free, the engineer reportedly fell a couple of feet down a chute designed to collect scrap aluminium.

Incidentally, no other robot-related injures were reported to regulators by Tesla at the

Texas factory

in either 2021 or 2022. The incident comes amid years of heightened concerns over the risks of automated robots in the workplace.
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