双语新闻：韩国工业机器人碾压工人

South Korean police said Thursday an industrial robot had crushed a worker to death at a vegetable processing center.

韩国警方周四表示，一个工业机器人在一家蔬菜加工中心碾压一名工人致死。

The male worker suffered severe head and chest injuries after the robot's arms pushed his body against a conveyor belt used to move box containers. The man was treated at a hospital in the southern county of Goseong, but died of his injuries.

这名男性工人头部和胸部严重受伤，原因是机器人的手臂将他的身体推到了用于移动集装箱的传送带上。该男子在南部高城郡的一家医院接受治疗，但因伤势过重而死亡。

Police said early evidence suggested human error was more likely to blame than problems with the robot itself. But investigators were looking into whether the machine was defective or incorrectly designed. The robot was being used to lift boxes filled with vegetables.

警方表示，早期证据表明，与机器人本身的问题相比，人为失误更有可能是罪魁祸首。但调查人员正在调查这台机器是否存在缺陷或设计不当。这个机器人被用来举起装满蔬菜的箱子。

Police said the victim of the accident was an employee of a company that deploys industrial robots to businesses. He was sent to the processing center to examine whether the machine was working correctly.

警方表示，事故的受害者是一家为企业部署工业机器人的公司的员工。他被派到加工中心去检查机器是否运转正常。

A police official who spoke to The Associated Press (AP) said investigators were looking into the possibility that the robot had misidentified the worker as a box. The machine's sensors are designed to identify boxes. Security video suggested the man had moved near the robot with a box in his hands and this could have caused the machine's reaction, the official said.

一名警官在接受美联社采访时表示，调查人员正在调查机器人是否将工作人员误认为是一个盒子。这台机器的传感器是用来识别箱子的。这名官员说，监控视频显示，这名男子曾拿着一个盒子靠近机器人，这可能导致了机器人的反应。

The machine that caused the death was one of two used at the center to lift and transport boxes loaded with vegetables to be exported to other Asian nations. Such robots are common in South Korean agricultural communities.

造成死亡的机器是该中心用来提升和运输装满蔬菜的箱子的两台机器之一，这些蔬菜要出口到其他亚洲国家。这种机器人在韩国农业社区很常见。

A police investigator told the AP the machine was not an "artificial intelligence-powered robot," but a device designed to just lift and place boxes. He said police were working with related agencies to find out whether the machine had safety issues.

一名警方调查人员告诉美联社，这台机器不是“人工智能驱动的机器人”，而是一种专门用来举起和放置箱子的设备。他说，警方正在与相关机构合作，调查这台机器是否存在安全问题。

The International Federation of Robotics, based in Germany, estimated South Korea had 1,000 industrial robots per 10,000 employees in 2021. This represents the highest density of industrial robots in the world. Many of these robots are used in manufacturing factories such as electronics and auto-making.

总部位于德国的国际机器人联合会估计，到2021年，韩国每1万名员工中就有1000台工业机器人。这代表了世界上工业机器人的最高密度。许多这样的机器人被用于制造工厂，如电子和汽车制造。

South Korea has had other industrial robot accidents in recent years. In March, a manufacturing robot crushed and seriously injured a worker who was examining it at an auto parts factory in Gunsan. And in 2022, a robot working near a conveyor belt crushed a worker to death at a milk factory south of the capital Seoul.

韩国近年来也发生过其他工业机器人事故。今年3月，在群山市的一家汽车零部件工厂，一个制造机器人将一名检查它的工人撞倒，造成严重伤害。2022年，在首都首尔以南的一家牛奶厂，一个在传送带附近工作的机器人将一名工人压死。