Starship Technologies vs Serve Robotics
Starship Technologies: 8 incidents on record recorded between 2019 and 2024, 1 where a person was hurt. Every case links to the sources it rests on.
Serve Robotics: 2 incidents on record recorded between 2025 and 2026, 1 where a person was hurt. Every case links to the sources it rests on.
Counts are events documented in the press the register reads that cleared verification, not a safety rating: fleet sizes are not public, and a widely covered company accumulates more cases than a smaller one with the same incident. The escalation share is the one number that normalises itself. Formula on the methodology page.
Reading the numbers
Starship Technologies has 8 cases on record against 2 for Serve Robotics. Starship Technologies's record begins earlier, in 2019, against 2025.
A person was hurt in 13% of Starship Technologies's cases and 50% of Serve Robotics's. The escalation share, the one number that does not depend on fleet size or press attention, is 13% for Starship Technologies and 0% for Serve Robotics: Starship Technologies's cases more often reached a regulator, a recall or a court.
Both records are mostly about delivery robots. The more recent case belongs to Serve Robotics, dated 2026-03-23.
Starship Technologies
- Cases on record8
- A person was hurt1
- Fatal0
- Reached a regulator, recall or court1
- Escalation share13%
- First case on file2019
- Latest case2024-02-01
Serve Robotics
- Cases on record2
- A person was hurt1
- Fatal0
- Reached a regulator, recall or court0
- Escalation share0%
- First case on file2025
- Latest case2026-03-23
Both records, newest first
Each case links to its timeline and to the sources it rests on.
- 2026-03-23A Serve Robotics food delivery robot crashed into and shattered the glass of a CTA bus shelter at Grand and Racine in Chicago's West Town neighborhood, with no injuries reported.Follow-up
- 2025-09-13A Serve Robotics delivery robot collided with a man with cerebral palsy riding a mobility scooter on a sidewalk near the West Hollywood Sheriff's Station, causing his scooter to jolt backward.Follow-up
- 2024-02-01A Starship Technologies food delivery robot operated for S Group slid off an icy sidewalk in Helsinki, scratching both doors of a parked car, then fled the scene after a passerby placed it back on the road.Report
- 2024-01-17Two Starship delivery robots faced a stalemate on a Cambridge street corner, unable to pass each other.Report
- 2023-09-19A Starship delivery robot at Arizona State University abruptly changed direction, knocked over a university employee, and then reversed toward the victim while she was still on the ground, injuring her.Lawsuit
- 2023-09-16Co-op delivery robots in Cambridge became confused by fire hoses and fire engines blocking the road during a derelict building fire and had to be carried over the obstructions by Cambridgeshire firefighters.Report
- 2021-09-01A Starship Technologies autonomous delivery robot was struck by a Ford Escape at the University of Kentucky, damaging the robot's wheels, while it appeared to have the right of way.Report
- 2020-09-16A Starship food delivery robot was flipped over after being involved in an accident with a car at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, prompting students to hold a memorial vigil.Report
- 2020-07-28A Starship Technologies delivery robot veered into a canal near New Bradwell in Milton Keynes and had to be retrieved by the company.Report
- 2019-10-21A Starship Technologies food delivery robot waiting in a curb ramp on Forbes Avenue at Pitt's campus blocked the path of a wheelchair-using doctoral student, forcing her to alter her route to reach the sidewalk.Report
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