We're ROYALLY SCREWED. Serious, this is like Terminator 3:Rise of the Machines. Casey can do his best Jon Conner impression (he does it all the time during parties), I'm going to go and hide in the hills.
A Swedish company has been fined 25,000 kronor ($3,000) after a malfunctioning robot attacked and almost killed one of its workers at a factory north of Stockholm.
Public prosecutor Leif Johansson mulled pressing charges against the firm but eventually opted to settle for a fine.
"I've never heard of a robot attacking somebody like this," he told news agency TT.
The incident took place in June 2007 at a factory in Bålsta, north of Stockholm, when the industrial worker was trying to carry out maintenance on a defective machine generally used to lift heavy rocks. Thinking he had cut off the power supply, the man approached the robot with no sense of trepidation.
But the robot suddenly came to life and grabbed a tight hold of the victim's head. The man succeeded in defending himself but not before suffering serious injuries.
"The man was very lucky. He broke four ribs and came close to losing his life," said Leif Johansson.
Hello northern Idaho, where no machine would even think about going because that's probably the only place on earth that still uses dial-up internet. Let's see if Skynet can find me there.
GET TO THE CHOPPER!
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