Every case on record
One row per real-world event. The bar on the right shows how far it travelled along the escalation chain, from a first report to a settlement.
Category
Severity, incident type, full-text search, saved views and export are part of Pro. Every case and every source stays free. See what Pro adds
231 cases
- 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
- 2024-01-30A food delivery robot crashed into a car and fled the scene of the accident.Report
- 2024-01-17Two Starship delivery robots faced a stalemate on a Cambridge street corner, unable to pass each other.Report
- 2023-12-11Two unoccupied Waymo robotaxis separately collided with the same improperly towed pickup truck in Phoenix, Arizona on December 11, 2023, resulting in minor damage and no injuries, prompting Waymo's first-ever software recall.Report
- 2023-11-08A robotics company employee in his 40s was crushed to death by a robotic arm at a pepper sorting plant in South Gyeongsang province, South Korea, after the arm confused him for a box of vegetables and pushed him against a conveyor belt.Follow-up
- 2023-11-07A man in his 40s employed by an industrial robot installation company was crushed to death by a pick-and-place robotic arm at a vegetable-packaging plant in South Gyeongsang province, South Korea, after the robot apparently mistook him for a box of vegetables.Follow-up
- 2023-10-02A pedestrian was seriously injured in San Francisco after being struck by a hit-and-run human driver and thrown into the path of a Cruise autonomous vehicle, which ran over her and trapped her underneath until firefighters used the jaws of life to free her.Settlement
- 2023-10-02A Cruise robotaxi ran over a pedestrian who had been pushed into its path by a hit-and-run vehicle and pinned the person beneath its tire in San Francisco, leading to California regulators revoking Cruise's robotaxi permits.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.Follow-up
- 2023-09-17Firefighters moved delivery robots out of the way while tackling a building fire in Cambridge.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
- 2023-09-15Asensus Surgical issued a customer alert on September 15, 2023, warning that the Senhance surgical robot's laparoscope instrument actuator could rotate continuously after disconnection from its remote control, posing a risk of tissue trauma, though no patient harm occurred, and the FDA classified it as a Class I recall.Report
- 2023-08-24Aiper Elite Pro Cordless Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaners Recalled Due to Burn and Fire Hazards; Distributed by Shenzhen Aiper Intelligent Co. (Recall Alert)Recall
- 2023-08-17A Cruise self-driving robotaxi was struck by a San Francisco Fire Department truck en route to an emergency at the intersection of Polk and Turk Streets in the Tenderloin district, resulting in one passenger being transported to a hospital with non-severe injuries.Regulator action
- 2023-08-14Sammy Davis, 69, was struck by a vehicle at Seventh and Harrison streets in San Francisco and later died of his injuries; the San Francisco Fire Department alleged a Cruise robotaxi blocked their ambulance from transporting him, a claim Cruise disputes.Follow-up
- 2023-08-14Two Cruise autonomous vehicles stopped in traffic lanes on August 14, 2023 in San Francisco, allegedly delaying an ambulance transporting a pedestrian with life-threatening injuries who later died at the hospital, though Cruise disputes that its vehicles impeded the ambulance.Report
- 2023-08-07A driverless Cruise autonomous vehicle was struck by a semi-truck performing a left turn from the right lane near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, sustaining damage to its passenger-side mirror, a camera, and a tire, with no passengers in the vehicle and no injuries reported.Report
- 2023-07-20A worker at Highline Mushrooms' Kingsville plant was critically injured after becoming entangled in netting on a net washer machine's rotating bar, resulting in a $143,750 fine against Highline Produce Limited.Report
- 2023-06-15An unmanned Cruise autonomous vehicle struck a woman's off-leash Labrador in a crosswalk at Clay and Baker streets in San Francisco; the dog was reported uninjured.Report
- 2023-05-12A proposed class action lawsuit alleges that Ecovacs Deebot robot vacuums contain a defective motor built from substandard materials that causes the devices to fail prematurely and become wholly inoperable.Report
- 2023-04-18An FDNY Boston Dynamics Spot robodog fell over onto its side while surveying the rubble of a collapsed parking garage in Manhattan, though it later recovered and helped locate the remains of a worker who died in the collapse.Report
- 2023-04-10A Cruise autonomous robotaxi rear-ended a city bus at approximately 10 MPH in San Francisco due to a software error in predicting the movement of articulated vehicles, prompting a voluntary recall of 300 AVs.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
- 2023-03-24A driverless Cruise robotaxi with no passengers rear-ended a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Muni bus, causing modest damage to the bus and more severe damage to the robotaxi's front bumper, with no injuries reported.Follow-up
- 2023-03-16STIHL Incorporated Recalls Docking Stations Sold with STIHL iMOW Robotic Lawn Mowers Due to Fire HazardRecall
- 2023-03-09Robot crushes 20-year-old worker to death at Hyundai/Kia supplier facilityFollow-up
- 2023-01-01A Starship food delivery robot reversed into a 73-year-old ASU parking attendant on the Tempe campus, knocking her down and causing a laceration near her left elbow and subsequent back pain.Lawsuit
- 2022-09-01Cruise recalls robotaxis after a passenger was injured in a crash.Recall
- 2022-09-01GM's Cruise recalls self-driving software involved in a June crashRecall
- 2022-09-01J.T. Beckham, a man in his 20s, was killed when he was pinned by a welding robot at the Unipres USA manufacturing plant in Forest, Mississippi.Report
- 2022-07-26A chess robot broke a seven-year-old boy's finger during a match in Russia, prompting a roundup of worst robotic accidents in history.Report
- 2022-07-21Chess robot grabbed and broke the finger of a seven-year-old child during a matchReport
- 2022-07-05Husqvarna's Automower 435X and Automower 535 robot lawn mowers caught fire during battery charging, resulting in five reported fire incidents, prompting a safety recall by the OPSS.Recall
- 2022-06-03A Cruise driverless robotaxi braked harshly while making an unprotected left turn and was struck by an oncoming speeding vehicle in San Francisco, resulting in minor injuries.Recall
- 2022-06-03Christopher C. Pardue, 71, died on June 26, 2022, after undergoing robotic surgery to remove prostate cancer at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London on June 3, 2022, with a lawsuit alleging the hospital lacked the resources to safely perform the procedure and failed to transfer him sooner to a major medical center.Report
- 2022-05-16A man was crushed to death by the compactor mechanism of an automated dumpster in Alexandroupolis, Greece, after reaching inside the bin.Report
- 2022-03-08A man claiming to be an Amazon warehouse employee posted a viral TikTok video showing himself temporarily trapped in an aisle by automatically moving robotic shelving units, taking approximately 15 minutes to find a way out with no reported injury.Report
- 2022-02-17Husqvarna Recalls All-Wheel Drive Robotic Lawnmowers Due to Fire Hazard (Recall Alert)Recall
- 2021-12-31A Tesla software engineer was attacked by a robot at Tesla's Giga Texas factory in Austin when a third robot that had not been disabled pinned him and sank its metal claws into his back and arm, causing lacerations.Lawsuit
- 2021-10-29Zimmer surgical robot subject to Class I recall due to a software glitch.Recall
- 2021-10-28A Pony.ai autonomous vehicle operating in driverless mode struck a center divider and traffic sign on Fremont Blvd in Fremont, California, sustaining moderate damage with no injuries reported.Report
- 2021-09-01A da Vinci surgical robot allegedly burned and tore Sandra Sultzer's small intestine during colon cancer surgery in Florida in September 2021, leading to additional procedures and her death in February 2022, prompting a wrongful death lawsuit against Intuitive Surgical.Lawsuit
- 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
- 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
- 2021-07-14Hospitals sue surgical robot maker over allegedly restrictive contractsReport
- 2021-02-24During the 'Spot's Rampage' interactive art exhibit in a Brooklyn studio, a Boston Dynamics Spot robot equipped with a paintball gun malfunctioned and collapsed on its side approximately one hour after users began remotely controlling it to destroy artwork inside the space.Report
- 2021-01-01A Tesla engineer at the Austin Gigafactory was clawed and pinned to a wall by a robot arm that had not fully shut down, suffering lacerations to his back and arms before falling into a chute.Report
- 2020-11-09Auto-parts company fined $1.5 million after worker was killed by a robotic armFine
- 2020-11-03iRobot warned owners that certain Roomba i7+ Clean Base docking stations could malfunction and present a hazard if liquids collected by the robot vacuum were deposited into the unit.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