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Is this the start of robot era?

In a bizarre accident, a 21-year-old worker at a Volkswagen plant in Germany has been killed by an assembly line robot when it grabbed and crushed him against a metal plate. Robot-related fatalities are rare in western production units as robots are kept behind safety cages to prevent accidental contact with humans.

Updated : 04 July 2015, 02:13 PM

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