Commercial robot incidents, May 2023
1 commercial robot incidents dated May 2023, down 50% on the month before, 0 with a person hurt and 0 fatal. 0 cases were added to the register during the month. Most involved Ecovacs (1). Largest class: consumer robots (1).
Incidents are counted by the date they happened, 2023-05-01 to 2023-05-31. 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: April 2023. Quarterly view: the quarterly record.
By kind of machine
- Consumer robots1
By company
- Ecovacs1
By outcome
- no harm1
The cases that reached furthest
Ordered by severity, then by how many independent sources the case rests on.
All 1 incidents dated May 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.
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