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Here's a way to get plenty of robot injuries...
If you used sensors to locate and destroy stacks and did it fairly well...
You can have games of seek and destroy. Buy some of that reflective tape and stick it onto people's ankles...
And if you have a fast robot, and if they don't realize they have the tape on, you can get some good laughs. Just don't do this without an intelligent person at the kill switch. Don't want anybody to get hurt.

As for the injuries, once while cutting some bars with a radial arm saw, the brushes started sparking like crazy and burnt me.
At Silicon Valley regionals, I was drilling mounting holes in our plexi-glass side panels and the drill got my finger, and it was really deep, like a 1/4 inch deep. It didn't bleed too much though.
And our pneumatics are sort-of spontaneous, and our extending elevator got a guy working on it pretty hard.
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