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Commercial robot incidents, January 2024

1 commercial robot incidents dated January 2024, 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 Starship Technologies (1). Largest class: delivery (1).

Incidents are counted by the date they happened, 2024-01-01 to 2024-01-31. 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: December 2023. Quarterly view: the quarterly record.

By kind of machine

  • delivery1

By company

  • Starship Technologies1

By outcome

  • no harm1
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Ordered by severity, then by how many independent sources the case rests on.

Every case

All 1 incidents dated January 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.

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