Tag: mechanical engineering

  • Indian teacher dies while giving lecture about good health

    Indian teacher dies while giving lecture about good health

    A professor at Kanpur’s Indian Institute of Technology died of cardiac arrest on stage while delivering a speech on a health-related topic. Sameer Khandekar’s last words reportedly were “Take care of your health….” after which he collapsed. He was immediately taken to the hospital where he was declared dead upon arrival.

    The professor, 52, was speaking at an alumni meet on the campus on Friday evening. He was the head of the mechanical engineering department and also served as Dean, of student welfare. According to Indian media, he had been grappling with cardiac health problems since 2019.

  • Robot mistakes man for box, crushes him to death

    Robot mistakes man for box, crushes him to death

    A South Korean man was misidentified as a box by a robot that crushed him to death, local media has reported.

    The incident took place when the worker, reportedly in his 40s, was inspecting the robot’s sensor at a warehouse for agricultural products.

    Yonhap news agency reports that the robot was lifting boxes of bell peppers when it mistook the man for a receptacle.

    According to police sources, the “Mechanical arm pushed the man’s upper body onto a conveyor belt and crushed his face and chest”.

    The man later died in hospital.

    In an official statement released by the Donggoseong Export Agricultural Complex, the plant owner, called for a “precise and safe” system to be established.

    Sky News reports that in March, another South Korean man in his 50s, endured serious injuries after getting trapped by a robot while working at a vehicle parts manufacturing plant.