‘That’ll put your eye out!’ —Japanese robot
The following Basic Experiments on Collision of Sharp Mechanical Hazards against Eye for Estimation of Injury Severity by a Japanese robot seems better than the proverbial a poke in the eye with a sharp stick…
Robots and humans interact
Improbable Research 2013/02/11
Part 1 : Avoiding a poke in the eye
…experiment conducted at the Academy for Safety Intelligence, Nagoya University, Japan.
The participant wearing protective glasses and the robot were separated…
… the sharp end effector tip of a robot suddenly approaches the eyes of a facing participant. But would the experimental participant move out of the way in time? …
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Supposedly, in the first experiments the robot didn’t actually stick the human subject in the eye. However in the follow-up the evil robot’s pointed “end-effector” was fully exposed and 
jabbed it directly at an unprotected eyeball, causing considerable damage…
…to a pig eyeball as shown below.
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