South Korea removes safety barriers to let humanoid robots work alongside humans in factories
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What just happened? Humanoid robots have long been making their way into different areas of the US workplace. It's also happening in South Korea, which has approved an exception to industrial safety rules so 20 machines can be tested alongside workers. For employees already worried about being replaced, removing these barriers – both literally and figuratively – isn't going to offer much reassurance.
South Korea's industry ministry announced the approval on October 13 through its regulatory sandbox program, which allows companies to test new technologies under exemptions from existing requirements.
The problem is that the country's industrial robot safety rules were written around machines that don't move around freely like a human would. They require fences and other barriers separating robot work areas from people, which would make it pretty difficult for humanoids...
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