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231 cases
- 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
- 2020-04-30Modular Robotics Recalls Rechargeable Battery Packs Due to Burn HazardRecall
- 2019-11-01At Tesla's Fremont, California plant in November 2019, a stack of three steel skids on an automated conveyor system knocked worker Paul Janikowski down and dragged him more than 15 feet, seriously injuring both his legs.Lawsuit
- 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, Emily Ackerman, forcing her to alter her route to reach the sidewalk.Report
- 2019-06-03Two construction workers in Washington State were severely injured in separate incidents involving remote-controlled demolition robots: one was pinned against a wall with his chest severely crushed, and another suffered broken bones and nerve damage when a machine came down on his foot.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
- 2019-02-14A Deebot Ecovac robotic vacuum is suspected of catching fire in a Fort Thomas, Kentucky home, causing damage to the property while the owner escaped unharmed.Report
- 2019-01-06A self-driving Tesla Model S struck and destroyed a Promobot v4 autonomous service robot in a parking lot street at 3000 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, while the robot was being transported to the Consumer Electronics Show venue.Report
- 2018-12-14A KiwiBot delivery robot caught fire at UC Berkeley on December 14, 2018, and was extinguished by a passerby and subsequently by the Berkeley Fire Department.Follow-up
- 2018-12-13A 49-year-old factory worker in China was impaled by ten steel spikes when a robot malfunctioned and collapsed onto him, injuring his arm and chest; surgeons removed all spikes and he was left in stable condition.Report
- 2018-12-06Amazon warehouse robot accidentally punctured a can of bear repellent, hospitalizing multiple workersFollow-up
- 2017-04-14Andrew Tibbott, a 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
- 2016-08-15A Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner ran over dog feces and spread the mess across every surface throughout a home in Little Rock, Arkansas.Report
- 2016-07-14A Knightscope K5 security robot ran over a 16-month-old toddler, Harwin Cheng, at a shopping centre in Silicon Valley, leaving him with swelling to his right foot.Report
- 2016-07-07Dallas PD used a robot to kill a suspect after negotiations failed during a standoff.Report
- 2016-06-18Twenty-year-old Regina Elsea was crushed to death inside a robotic welding station at the Ajin USA facility in Cusseta, Alabama, when the robot abruptly restarted while she and co-workers were clearing a sensor fault.Lawsuit
- 2016-06-18Regina Elsea, a 20-year-old worker at Ajin USA metal stamping plant in Chambers County, Alabama, was crushed to death on June 18, 2016, when a robotic arm started up while she was inside a machinery enclosure troubleshooting a sensor fault without following required lockout/tagout procedures.Report
- 2016-06-18Regina Allen Elsea, 20, was killed when a robot at the Ajin USA plant in Cusseta, Alabama restarted abruptly while she was inside a robotic station clearing a sensor fault on a stopped assembly line.Lawsuit
- 2016-04-22$30M surgical robot defect trial settles during jury deliberationsSettlement
- 2015-08-14A robot arm killed a co-worker at a car factory in India.Follow-up
- 2015-07-07A worker at Ventra Ionia Main was trapped by robotic machinery and pronounced dead at the scene in Ionia, Michigan.Report
- 2015-07-01A technician was killed at a Volkswagen assembly plant in Germany after a robot he was assembling picked him up and pushed him into a metal plate.Follow-up
- 2015-06-29A 22-year-old contract worker installing a production line at a Volkswagen plant in Baunatal, Germany, was grabbed and crushed against a large metal plate by a robotic arm, dying from his injuries in hospital.Follow-up
- 2015-02-05A Korean housewife's hair was sucked into a robot vacuum cleaner causing an incident at home.Follow-up
- 2015-01-01NASA's Robonaut 2 humanoid robot, developed with General Motors and installed on the International Space Station, suffered progressive hardware failures beginning in 2015 traced to a missing ground cable and was being returned to Earth for repairs as of February 2018.Report
- 2014-03-25Shareholders filed a derivative lawsuit against Intuitive Surgical alleging the company underreported adverse events and concealed recalls related to its da Vinci surgical robot.Report
- 2013-12-04A worker was crushed to death under a robotic arm.Report
- 2013-11-13A robot vacuum cleaner reactivated itself on a kitchen worktop in Austria, pushed a cooking pot aside, landed on a hot stove element, melted and caught fire, causing smoke damage that rendered the home uninhabitable.Report
- 2013-06-14Lawsuits allege that microscopic cracks in the insulating covers of the da Vinci Surgical System's Monopolar Curved Scissors allowed electrical current to leak and burn patients during minimally invasive surgeries at hospitals across the United States.Report
- 2009-01-01Michelle Zarick alleged that inadequately insulated electrified scissors on the da Vinci robotic surgical system caused internal injuries during a 2009 hysterectomy, resulting in intestinal prolapse and emergency surgery requiring a hip-to-hip incision.Report
- 1979-01-25Robert Williams, a 25-year-old Ford assembly line worker, was killed instantly when a robot arm struck him in the head while he was gathering parts in a storage facility at a Ford casting plant in Flat Rock, Michigan.Report