A South Korean worker was crushed to death by an industrial robot that mistook him for a box of vegetables, local authorities said Thursday. The unidentified worker in Goseong succumbed to head ...

A man in South Korea died Tuesday after a robot was said to have mistaken him for a box and crushed him against a conveyor belt, police have said.

These box-moving robots are supposed to work like automated swarms of worker bees in order to efficiently carry boxes around warehouses.