Commercial robot incidents, February 2024
3 commercial robot incidents dated February 2024, up 200% on the month before, 2 with a person hurt and 1 fatal. 0 cases were added to the register during the month. Most involved Starship Technologies (1). Largest class: autonomous vehicles (1).
Incidents are counted by the date they happened, 2024-02-01 to 2024-02-29. 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: January 2024. Quarterly view: the quarterly record.
By kind of machine
- Autonomous vehicles1
- delivery1
- Industrial robots1
By company
- Starship Technologies1
- Waymo1
By outcome
- fatality1
- minor injury1
- property damage1
The cases that reached furthest
Ordered by severity, then by how many independent sources the case rests on.
- 2024-02-22Employee Dies From Chest Injuries When Crushed By Robot ArmInvestigation
- 2024-02-06A Waymo driverless robotaxi struck a bicyclist who was occluded by a truck at the intersection of 17th Street and Mississippi Street in San Francisco, resulting in minor injuries to the cyclist who was not taken to the hospital.Investigation
- 2024-02-01A Starship Technologies food delivery robot operated for S Group slid off an icy sidewalk in Helsinki, scratching both doors of a parked car, then fled the scene after a passerby placed it back on the road.Report
All 3 incidents dated February 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.
- 2024-02-22Employee Dies From Chest Injuries When Crushed By Robot ArmInvestigation
- 2024-02-06A Waymo driverless robotaxi struck a bicyclist who was occluded by a truck at the intersection of 17th Street and Mississippi Street in San Francisco, resulting in minor injuries to the cyclist who was not taken to the hospital.Investigation
- 2024-02-01A Starship Technologies food delivery robot operated for S Group slid off an icy sidewalk in Helsinki, scratching both doors of a parked car, then fled the scene after a passerby placed it back on the road.Report
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