Tesla Robot Suffers Malfunctions and Attacks Engineer at Texas Factory, Leaving ‘Trail of Blood’
At Tesla's Giga Texas factory, a robotic malfunction resulted in a harrowing incident where an engineer was attacked by one of the company's robots. The attack caused serious injuries, leaving behind a trail of blood.
According to the Daily Mail, while working on software programming for non-functional robots, the engineer was pinned against a surface by a robot assigned to manipulate aluminum car components.
Its metal claws caused an open wound on the worker's left hand.
“Two of the robots, which cut car parts from freshly cast pieces of aluminum, were disabled so the engineer and his teammates could safely work on the machines. A third one, which grabbed and moved the car parts, was inadvertently left operational, according to two people who watched it happen. As that robot ran ...