Commercial robot incidents, December 2024
2 commercial robot incidents dated December 2024 so far (provisional, verification backlog), 1 with a person hurt and 1 fatal. 0 cases were added to the register during the month. Most involved Waymo (1). Largest class: delivery (1).
Provisional. 20 reports published in or just after this month are still in the verification queue, so the count will rise as they clear. A lower figure here means a slower queue, not fewer incidents.
Incidents are counted by the date they happened, 2024-12-01 to 2024-12-31. 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: November 2024. Quarterly view: the quarterly record.
By kind of machine
- delivery1
- Industrial robots1
By company
- Waymo1
By outcome
- fatality1
- no harm1
The cases that reached furthest
Ordered by severity, then by how many independent sources the case rests on.
All 2 incidents dated December 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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