Robot kills worker in VW plant, tweet goes viral over Terminator connection

A robot killed a 21-year-old technician at a Volkswagen plant near Kassel, Germany.

The robot had hit the technician and crushed him against a metal plate according to Fast FT.

He later died from his injuries.

Normally robots are kept in a case to avoid accidental contact with humans, but in this instance the technician was in that case.

Apparently the robot didn't suffer a technical defect.

The accident resulted in a tweet going viral - because of the person making the tweet's name.

@sarahoconnor_ ...a storm is coming.

— GnomishMath (@GnomishMath) July 1, 2015

Cyberdyne is REAL http://t.co/RLfSrNEYLD@LawSelfDefense@sarahoconnor_@RickAddante

— The Darkness (@Mojo_Tarkus) July 1, 2015

@sarahoconnor_ If we find out victims's name was John or Kyle it's tweet of the year!

— John Mather Photog (@John_Mather) July 1, 2015

@sarahoconnor_ You are our only hope now. Resistance fully supports you as our leader.

— FakeJourno (@FakeJourno) July 1, 2015

</p><p ="">O'Connor expressed some discomfort over twitter user's reaction to the killing, tweeting:</p><p =""><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en" width="425"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Feeling really uncomfortable about this inadvertent Twitter thing I seem to have kicked off. Somebody died. Let's not forget.</p>— Sarah O'Connor (@sarahoconnor_) <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahoconnor_/status/616336095916199936">July 1, 2015</a></blockquote><script charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js">uncomfortable