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.
Cases are the events that cleared verification. Underneath them sit the crash reports operators are required to file with the regulator, all of them, searchable by the words they wrote themselves.
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6 cases, serious injury, injury
- 2024-04-16A 54-year-old man with a T10 complete spinal cord injury sustained bilateral proximal tibial fractures during a powered robotic exoskeleton physiotherapy session, requiring manipulation under anaesthetic and 12 weeks of non-weight-bearing treatment.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
- 2021-01-01A 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.Follow-up
- 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
- 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
- 2012-09-26A piece of a surgical robot fell into a patient's abdominal cavity unnoticed during surgery, resulting in a $475,000 lawsuit.Lawsuit