Kenji Urada

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Kenji Urada (1944 – 1981) was the first person to be killed by a robot. He was a 37-year old maintenance engineer at a Kawasaki plant. While working on a broken robot, he failed to turn it off completely, resulting in the robot pushing him into a grinding machine with its hydraulic arm.

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