Worker Crushed to Death by Robot in Volkswagen Plant

On Wednesday, Volkswagen confirmed that a German robotics worker died this week after an assembly robot in a VW plant grabbed the man and pressed him against a metal plate, the Associated Press reports.

Worker Crushed to Death by Robot in Volkswagen Plant

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