SEOUL--An industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said Thursday, as they investigate whether the machine was unsafe or had potential defects.

As an approach to compensate for agricultural labor shortage in Japan of an aging society, a factory that plants vegetables by farming is planned to appear in Kyoto, where a robot (= a machine that ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An industrial robot grabbed and crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said Thursday, as they investigated whether the machine was ...

A vegetable-packing machine crushed a worker to death in South Korea because its sensors detected the box he was carrying, police said, in a case that has added to already mounting fears surrounding ...

This photo provided by the South Korea Gyeongsangnam-do Fire Department shows the interior of a vegetable packaging plant after a worker's deadly crush by a robot was reported, in Goseong, South Korea ...

SAGA -- An agricultural high-tech startup company in eastern Japan has launched an autonomous robotic harvester that picks greenhouse vegetables and has begun leasing the machine to an asparagus ...

An industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said Thursday, as they investigate whether the machine was unsafe or had potential defects.