Commercial robot incidents, March 2024
3 commercial robot incidents dated March 2024, level with the month before, 2 with a person hurt and 1 fatal. 0 cases were added to the register during the month. Largest class: consumer robots (1).
Incidents are counted by the date they happened, 2024-03-01 to 2024-03-31. 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: February 2024. Quarterly view: the quarterly record.
By kind of machine
- Consumer robots1
- Humanoids1
- robot_arm1
By company
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.
- 2024-03-27A factory worker was pinned to a bench and crushed to death by a robot at the Vandapac factory in Chonburi, Thailand.Report
- 2024-03-04Saudi humanoid robot 'Muhammad' allegedly touched a female reporter inappropriately on her back during its public launch at the DeepFast event in Riyadh.Report
- 2024-03-05A robotic vacuum exploded at a family home in Fenton, raising concerns about a broader safety problemReport
All 3 incidents dated March 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.
- 2024-03-27A factory worker was pinned to a bench and crushed to death by a robot at the Vandapac factory in Chonburi, Thailand.Report
- 2024-03-05A robotic vacuum exploded at a family home in Fenton, raising concerns about a broader safety problemReport
- 2024-03-04Saudi humanoid robot 'Muhammad' allegedly touched a female reporter inappropriately on her back during its public launch at the DeepFast event in Riyadh.Report
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