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Ow, Robot! When humans have been attacked by robots from broken fingers to crushed skulls

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a chess robot grabbed and broke his finger during a match at the Moscow Open.The boy apparently made a move too quickly which kickstarted the machine’s safety procedures and prompted the mechanical arm to lash out.It took several officials to prise the robot off the boy.

Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, said: “The robot broke the child’s finger. This is, of course, bad.”READ NEXT: Dodgy scam apps could 'Photoshop your face onto porn' and send it to your familyBut it’s not the first time humans have been attacked or even killed by robots.Car factories have a pretty scary track record when it comes to accidental robot-inflicted deaths.In Michigan, US, assembly line worker Robert Williams became the first human to be killed by a robot in 1979 when he was hit on the head at a Ford factory in Michigan, US.

The machine’s arm slammed him as he was gathering parts in a storage facility, where the robot also retrieved parts, and killed him instantly.Meanwhile in 1981, Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada was killed when a robot pushed him into a grinder at a Kawasaki plant.

The 37-year old failed to turn it off completely while carrying out repairs and it shoved him into the machine with its hydraulic arm.And in 2015, a giant robot crushed a VW worker to death after pinning him to a metal plate.

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