Every incident
Every consequence
We keep a case per event, not a record per article. A collision, the investigation that follows, the recall, the lawsuit and the settlement stay in one file. A copy of each source is kept, and linked beside it with the date it was taken, because half of these links will not open in two years.
- Cases
- 280
- Sources
- 619
- Escalated
- 39
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
The curve bends up
Not who is dangerous. Whose incidents reach consequences.
Fleet sizes are not public, so we cannot report incidents per thousand machines and will not pretend otherwise. What we can measure is internally normalised: the share of a company's recorded incidents that reached a regulator, a recall or a court.
| Company | Cases | Escalated | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoox | 9 | 5 | 56% | 2024 |
| Cruise | 10 | 3 | 30% | 2022 |
| Tesla | 15 | 2 | 13% | 2019 |
| Starship Technologies | 9 | 1 | 11% | 2019 |
| Waymo | 69 | 5 | 7% | 2023 |
| Unitree Robotics | 11 | 0 | 0% | 2025 |
Companies with fewer than 8 cases are left out of the index: at that sample size a single case moves the share by double digits. Currently outside it: Avride 4, Boston Dynamics 4, Intuitive Surgical 4, iRobot 3, Ecovacs 3, Baidu 3, Coco Robotics 3, Serve Robotics 3, and 33 more.
Latest cases
The open web yields a handful of genuinely new events per week. Most additions are developments on cases already on file, or older events entering the register for the first time.
- 2026-08-02A patrolling robot was damaged after falling down a staircase at Hong Kong airport.Report
- 2026-08-01A Waymo autonomous vehicle (Jaguar I-Pace) was involved in a crash with non-motorist: pedestrian in Dallas, TX, reported to NHTSA as a fatalityReport
- 2026-07-30AI humanoid robot collapsed during a live demonstration in Taiwan, video went viral.Report
- 2026-07-26Qualcomm's new AI robot collapsed and malfunctioned during an on-stage demonstrationFollow-up
- 2026-07-25A DoorDash delivery robot wandered into an active SWAT operation and refused to leaveFollow-up
- 2026-07-21A fire believed to have been sparked by a robot vacuum broke out at a Hanyang Apartments unit in Apgujeong-dong, Gangnam District, Seoul, forcing more than 20 residents to evacuate and requiring 133 firefighting personnel to extinguish; one resident suffered dizziness from smoke inhalation.Investigation
- 2026-07-17During the opening night of the URKL humanoid robot combat tournament in Shenzhen, an EngineAI T800 robot named 'Matador' had its head knocked off by opponent 'White Eagle' and was knocked out of the fight.Report
- 2026-07-15GM Cruise robotaxi injury lawsuit sent to arbitration due to sign-in wrap agreementReport
- 2026-07-03A robot vacuum exploded at a home in Brabham, Perth, critically burning 25-year-old Lachie a person over approximately 75% of his body and destroying the property.Follow-up
- 2026-07-01A Waymo autonomous vehicle (Jaguar I-Pace) was involved in a crash with suv in Atlanta, GA, reported to NHTSA as moderate w/ hospitalizationReport
What the operators report about themselves
Every company running driving automation on American roads must file a report with NHTSA for each crash. Those filings are public, and they are a spreadsheet of 116 columns, which is why almost nobody reads them. The register holds all of them.
- Reports on file
- 1437
- Hospitalisation or worse
- 51
- Operators
- 17
- Cities
- 68
- Search the narrativesEach report carries an account the operator wrote. Ask it about an ambulance, a crosswalk, a school bus.
- Pedestrians and cyclistsThe filings where the other party had no metal around them, and the same impact means something else.
- What changedA crash first filed as nobody hurt can become a hospitalisation two months later. That correction is the story.
By place: San Francisco 378, Los Angeles 247, Austin 189, Phoenix 109, Atlanta 73, Dallas 66
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