Tesla worker left blood splattered across the floor after a robotic arm in the factory sunk it’s metallic claw into his back and arms. But now Elon Musk has hit back at the media for the way it was reported.
The alleged attack happened in 2021 in the Giga Texas factory near Austin, Texas, but the claims only surfaced in recent months.
It was said that blood was left splattered on the floor after the robot arm – which is meant to move aluminium car parts – dug into the worker while he was programming software for other robots.
He described it as “truly shameful” for the media to bring up the reports from years back, adding that it was actually a different robot which attacked the worker – not an Optimus model.
“Truly shameful of the media to dredge up an injury from two years ago due to a simple industrial Kuka robot arm (found in all factories) and imply that it is due to Optimus now,” wrote Musk, responding to someone who shared an article online.
Another person who musk responded to in the thread said: “‘Attacks’ implies it made a decision. That robot did exactly as it was programmed to do. Apparently, the worker thought it was off when it wasn’t.”
It is reported that the engineer believed the robot was switched off while programming the software – but that it hadn’t been correctly shut down.
One witness to the incident quickly hit the emergency stop button when the robotic arm sunk into the worker, while another witness said the engineer “fell a couple of feet down a chute designed to collect scrap aluminium, leaving a trail of blood behind him”, according to the Sun
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