Don't trust anyone with no biological parts

Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Jun 30, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Don't trust anyone with no biological parts</h1>
                <h2><p>A robot in a VW plant outside Frankfurt, Germany, grabbed a worker and crushed him to death — despite the fact that the robot was in a cage designed to protect workers from it. A contributor on business magazine Forbes' online site warns against "more media Terminator frenzy,"</p></h2>
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            <p>A robot in a VW plant outside Frankfurt, Germany, grabbed a worker and crushed him to death — despite the fact that the robot was in a cage designed to protect workers from it. A contributor on business magazine Forbes' <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/theopriestley/2015/07/02/is-this-a-killer-robot-uprising-hardly/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">online site warns</a> against "more media Terminator frenzy," although the writer does describe robots as a significant work-place safety risk. So, umm, don't be alarmed by the media reports, unless you or a family member works around a robot larger than one of those disc-shaped vacuum cleaners.</p>
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A robot in a VW plant outside Frankfurt, Germany, grabbed a worker and crushed him to death — despite the fact that the robot was in a cage designed to protect workers from it. A contributor on business magazine Forbes' online site warns against "more media Terminator frenzy," although the writer does describe robots as a significant work-place safety risk. So, umm, don't be alarmed by the media reports, unless you or a family member works around a robot larger than one of those disc-shaped vacuum cleaners.

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By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi