Tesla Robot Attacked Engineer With Metal Claws at Texas Factory: Report Heavy.Com Jessica McBride

ATesla engineer at the company’s Giga factory near Austin, Texas, was attacked by a robot that pinned the man before injuring him with its metal claws, according to a report in The Information.

In November 2023, The Information first reported on the 2021 incident, citing safety concerns at the Tesla plant in Texas.

That report was followed by one in the Daily Mail, which described the robot attack at Tesla’s Giga factory as a “brutal and bloody malfunction.”

The robot was supposed to be moving aluminum car parts, the Daily Mail reported, when it sank “its metal claws into the worker’s back and arm,” leaving a “trail of blood.” The incident dates to 2021 but is just coming to light now.