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Killer Robots

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11/1/09

In a Japanese factory, a robot suddenly (activated)/ (turned on) a lathe, killing one of its workers. What was the cause? An electromagnetic wave produced by an electric spark coming from a crane.

This incident, which occurred in 1982, was reported in a recent study about electronic “smog” made by a group of investigators from the Japanese Mail and Telecommunications Ministry. The sources of this “smog,” or undesirable electromagnetic waves are everywhere. Personal computers, video games, and television-antenna amplifiers are only (some)/(a few) examples of this phenomenon.

These ubiquitous waves also interfere with the integrated circuits of sophisticated control systems, provoking at times their malfunctioning. In Japan (factory robots)/(robots in factories) have already killed ten people in/within/during the last eight years. (It is suspected that)/(Suspicions are) that six of these accidents were provoked by (such)/ (these types of) magnetic waves.