United Kingdom
The register holds 9 verified incidents placed in United Kingdom. 3 of them record someone hurt.
Reading the numbers
The record runs from April 2017 to March 2026, with cases in 7 different years and 2023 the busiest at 2 cases. The newest case is dated 2026-03-31: Uber Eats delivery robots were vandalised in a Sheffield suburb.
Starship Technologies accounts for 3 of the 9 cases (33%), followed by Boston Dynamics with 1; 4 cases name no company. By kind of machine, delivery robots make up 44% of the set, ahead of robot arms (2). Most cases are placed in United Kingdom (9).
In 44% of the cases property was damaged. 3 cases (33%) record a person hurt, 2 of them fatal. The most common type of event is other (3). None of the cases has yet gone beyond the first report.
By kind of machine
- Delivery4
- robot arm2
- Service1
- Consumer1
- warehouse amr1
By outcome
- Property damage4
- No harm2
- Fatality2
- Minor injury1
The incidents themselves
Each case passed the same gates: independent sources, a date, a named machine. Open a case for its sources and timeline.
- 2026-03-31Uber Eats delivery robots were vandalised in a Sheffield suburbReport
- 2024-09-14A Boston Dynamics robot dog fell down a flight of stairs and broke during a demonstration at Jaguar Land Rover's battery testing facility in Coventry.Report
- 2024-01-17Two Starship delivery robots faced a stalemate on a Cambridge street corner, unable to pass each other.Report
- 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
- 2023-04-09A robotic vacuum cleaner docked in its charging station caused a fire in a bungalow in Holland-on-Sea, Essex, resulting in two residents being treated for smoke inhalation and the lounge being severely damaged.Report
- 2021-07-20Three warehouse robots collided on top of an automated grid system at Ocado's Erith facility, causing a fire that damaged part of the grid and forced thousands of order cancellations.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
- 2019-03-22A newlywed employee at a Co Armagh firm was killed by a falling robot, resulting in the company being fined £50,000.Report
- 2017-04-14A 48-year-old engineer at Deco-Pak in Hipperholme was fatally crushed by a robotic arm while cleaning a sensor inside the machine's cell, dying from crush injuries to his chest.Report
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