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Originally Posted by Thermal
I'm sorry, but the prevelance of this idea is absurd to me. I see absolutely no reason as to why a person cannot be near a robot that is on. A healthy respect for injuries that a robot can cause DOES NOT require one to treat it like its a bomb about to go off. Honestly a robot that turned on is only as dangerous as the person controlling it. As is, everyone on the team should have a sense of trust in their driver, otherwise that person should not be controlling a robot.
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I'm going to have to respectfully disagree there. A robot is only as safe as it's
programmers, and I wouldn't trust a program with my body. What if the robot suddenly started autonomous mode, and someone had their hand in a gearbox, or was right in front of it as an 135 pound machine tackled them? There are very, very many bad things that can happen (and have) to people by powered robots.