• The worker, the robot and History

  • Jul 10 2024
  • Length: 3 mins
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  • What happened to a young man in great physical shape, a worker at Ford in the United States, assigned to assemble car wings ? What was the likelihood that 25-year-old Robert Williams would tragically go down in history and his family would receive $10 million in compensation? Well, it happened in the state of Michigan, in 1979. Our victim became the first man in the history of the world to be killed by a robot. In theory, it can't happen, everything should be fine, it's just a robot helping workers to assemble cars... But then, again, not everything always goes as planned... Sometimes it seems so absurd, outlandish...

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