[KenWittlief]

Actually people have been killed by robots!

I think the first was an assembly line worker at a car factory in Japan.

I dont know if the following is true or internet lore:

Killed by a Robot (Joshua 10) - Ford Motor Company's casting plant in Flat
Rock, Michigan, employed a one-ton robot to fetch parts from a storage rack.
When the robot malfunctioned on January 25, 1979, twenty-five-year-old
Robert Williams was asked to climb up on the rack and get the parts. While he
was performing the task, the robot suddenly reactivated and hit Williams in the
head with its arm. Williams died instantly. four years later a jury ordered Unit
Handling Systems, the manufacturer of the robot, to pay Williams's family $10
million. Williams is believed to have been the first person killed by a robot.

In February 1982, a maintenance worker at the Kawasaki plant in Akieski, Japan, got himself written into the history books. Kenji Urada has the dubious honour of being the first human being to be murdered by a robot. Instead of opening the robot's safety gate - which was supposed to cut off its power - Kenji jumped over the barrier fence and accidentally hit the juice button. The robot took a look at him, decided that he was an industrial component, grabbed ahold of the poor man and turned him into sausage meat with a gear-cutting machine. Nasty!

In a survey of American factories where robots are hard at work, no less than four percent have had major robotic accidents, including heads bashed in by 'intelligent' tool arms, and two unfortunate guys hung in the air by their feet and sent along the conveyor belt to be turned into cars. Most deaths and injuries are caused by the fast movement of robot arms, trapping and crushing humans, or knocking them senseless into heavy machinery.