User blog comment:DemonicsFire/RWBY Ships Hurt/Heal/@comment-28288412-20160811002012/@comment-4023909-20160811224806

we did see how penny is built tho and where she got cut wasn't anything really critical to her. sure they got close to that thing in her chest but it didn't look like it got chopped.

so I don't think she died, prob powered down from the shock of looking half her body.

bit like if you smash a computer screen, the computer prob still works, just needs a new screen