Commercial robot incidents, Q4 2024
Q4 2024: 3 documented incidents involving commercial robots (-62% on the quarter before), 1 with a person hurt and 1 fatal. 1 reached a regulator, a recall or a court. Most involved Honda (1). Largest class: consumer (1).
Incidents are counted by the date they happened, 2024-10-01 to 2024-12-31. 0 cases were published to the register during the quarter, including older events documented for the first time. Counts measure what was reported in English and cleared verification; fleet sizes are not public, so nothing here is a rate. Rules on the methodology page. Previous quarter for comparison: Q3 2024.
By kind of machine
- Consumer1
- Delivery1
- Industrial1
By company
- Honda1
- Waymo1
By outcome
- fatality1
- no harm1
- property damage1
The cases that reached furthest
Ordered by severity, then by how many independent sources the case rests on.
Whose incidents reach consequences
Share of a company's recorded incidents, across the whole register, that reached a regulator, a recall or a court. Companies with fewer than the threshold of cases are left out. Register total: 280 cases, 39 escalated.
- Zoox5/9 · 56%
- Cruise3/10 · 30%
- Tesla2/15 · 13%
- Starship Technologies1/9 · 11%
- Waymo5/69 · 7%
- Unitree Robotics0/11 · 0%
What the operators wrote in their own crash reports
1437 crash reports filed with NHTSA by 17 operators under the Standing General Order, read by theme. The federal file has one structured column for what was struck; these counts exist nowhere else.
- Emergency responders on scene, most often Waymo LLC128
- Stopped or blocking traffic, most often Waymo LLC124
- A pedestrian involved, most often Waymo LLC59
- A cyclist or scooter rider, most often Waymo LLC41
- Rear-ended by another vehicle, most often Zoox, Inc.36
- Roadworks, cones or a closure, most often Waymo LLC24
All 3 incidents dated Q4 2024
Newest first. Each one links to its timeline and to the sources it rests on. Case metadata is CC BY 4.0; cite the register by its DOI, 10.5281/zenodo.22925531.