# and so it begins... robot kills man

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 2, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-it-begins-robot-kills-man/724057 "2015-07-02T16:28:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-it-begins-robot-kills-man/724057/1 "2015-07-02T16:28:00Z")

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[link](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/robot-kills-man-at-volkswagen-plant-in-germany/ar-AAcrq3c?ocid=ansnewsap11)

They’ve tasted human blood.

Phase I is complete. [They can climb stairs](http://blog.robotpark.com/how-to-design-a-stair-climbing-robot-81004/). [They can run you down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chPanW0QWhA). [They can see through walls](http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~ymostofi/SeeThroughImaging.html).

Phase II. [Autonomy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator))

[del]Phase III. [Profit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission) [/del]

Phase IV. [Destroy all humans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroy_All_Humans!).

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-it-begins-robot-kills-man/724057/2 "2015-07-02T16:55:30Z")

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Well, I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.

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**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-it-begins-robot-kills-man/724057/3 "2015-07-02T17:00:24Z")

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And now we’re getting robot cars. The killing is just beginning. 3 laws, must remember…

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-it-begins-robot-kills-man/724057/4 "2015-07-02T17:04:22Z")

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Clever build-up, but there’s already a thread about this:

> **[Robot grabs; crushes man](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=761108)**
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> :eek: They’re here and they are ready. A scene out of the movie Terminator just happened for real. A robot killed a contractor at one of Volkswagen’s production plants in Germany, the automaker said. linky:...

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**Author:** ![Zerc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/82dd89/32.png) [@Zerc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zerc)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-it-begins-robot-kills-man/724057/5 "2015-07-02T17:04:59Z")

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Looks like they’re taking a bit of time to get up to speed though.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji\_Urada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Urada)

Kenji Urada (c. 1944 — July 4, 1981) was a Japanese engineer who was one of the first persons reported to have been killed by a robot.