Robot With Knives Used In Robotics Injury Study

An anonymous reader writes "IEEE Spectrum reports that German researchers, seeking to find out what would happen if a robot handling a sharp tool accidentally struck a human, set out to perform a series of cutting, stabbing, and puncturing tests. They used a robotic manipulator arm, fitted with various sharp tools (kitchen knife, scalpel, screwdriver) and performed striking tests at a block of silicone, a pig leg, and at one point, even the arm of a human volunteer. Volunteer, really?! The story includes video of the tests."

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Uncanny... (well, and mostly offtopic)

[sznupi]

TFA arriving during the day I was made aware of this quite psychodelic video commemorating Katyn, which depicts also a German (Nazi), well, metaphorical machine, with quite a lot of stabbing and cutting potential.

(lower quality "3rd party" upload, but with translation of the few bits of speech there; and yes, the cawalry charge is metaphorical, horses weren't used in IX 39 in a way how Nazi propaganda depicted it)

Do we really want to let the Germans perform tests of stabbing and cutting humans by (presumably German) robots? ;)