Commercial robot incidents, April 2023
2 commercial robot incidents dated April 2023, up 100% on the month before, 1 with a person hurt and 0 fatal. 0 cases were added to the register during the month. Most involved Boston Dynamics (1). Largest class: consumer robots (1).
Incidents are counted by the date they happened, 2023-04-01 to 2023-04-30. Counts measure what was reported in the press the register reads and cleared verification; fleet sizes are not public, so nothing here is a rate. The register holds 255 cases in all. Rules on the methodology page. Previous month: March 2023. Quarterly view: the quarterly record.
By kind of machine
- Consumer robots1
- Service robots1
By company
- Boston Dynamics1
By outcome
- minor injury1
- no harm1
The cases that reached furthest
Ordered by severity, then by how many independent sources the case rests on.
- 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
- 2023-04-18An 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
All 2 incidents dated April 2023
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.
- 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
- 2023-04-09A 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
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