On 12/05/2020 11:52 am, Roger Clarke wrote: > [I've no idea what a 'robotic cell' is, nor why a worker was in it]
https://blog.robotiq.com/what-is-robot-cell-deployment-and-what-it-isnt To call it a robot and invoke the mystical First Law of Robotics is the usual vendor exaggeration. It's automation. Essentially a robotic cell is a single machine that has pre-programmed actions. The pre-programming may be complex and responds logically and deterministicaly to input data from sensors. The failure is either in the safety sensors (assuming there are any) or in the logic in the software. Whatever the cause, it is a case of human error - someone did not account for all possibilities in the software or did not maintain the equipment so false data was input. Even then it could be argued that not enough redundancy was built in to avoid single points of failure. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
