Thursday, May 31, 2007

Robot lawnmower kills Danish man

This wouldn't be an issue if the lawnmower had been 3law compliant.

 
 

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Robot lawnmower kills Danish man

via Engadget by Nilay Patel on May 31, 2007

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In what we surely hope isn't the opening salvo of the robot insurrection, a 45-year old Danish municipal worker was tragically killed by an industrial robotic lawnmower this afternoon, after the unit tumbled off a slope and onto the poor fellow doing his job. Although we've seen quite a few robotic lawnmowers, we're not too familiar with the RC-controlled Dvorak Spider 01 unit the man was using; our only hope is that this is, of course, an isolated incident.

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