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I've almost been hit myself once or twice myself in the last 30 years, once they are set to do something they will just do it and do not care if a person is in the way or not in some circumstances,
On many robots, you can set collision detect (on the fly) for the moves to help eliminate the possibility of damage, even to someone getting hit. However, when you have a robot capable of lifting 350 pounds and it's rapidly swinging a 150 pound brake drum around, the collision detect has to be set so high that it wouldn't matter if it hit you or not. The results wouldn't be nice.
Not sure how Baxter does it's job so well and avoids hurting people when it hits them. Maybe sensors on all contact points. But Baxter is so damn slow, not sure that it would matter.