Monday, August 20, 2007

Useful Links.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot

http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/robotics/boebot/boebot.asp

Robot Fatalities


  • The first human to be killed by a robot was Robert Williams who died at a casting plant in Flat Rock, MI (Jan. 25, 1979). [24]

  • A better known case is that of 37 year-old Kenji Urada, a Japanese factory worker, in 1981. Urada was performing routine maintenance on the robot, but neglected to shut it down properly, and was accidentally pushed into a grinding machine.[25]