Robot incidents in 2014
The Machine Record holds 1 incident involving commercial robots in 2014, most involving Intuitive Surgical: 1 where a person was hurt, and 0 that reached a regulator, a recall or a court.
Counts measure what was reported in the press the register reads and cleared verification, not how many events took place. Fleet sizes are not public, so none of this is a rate. The rules are on the methodology page.
Reading the numbers
The 1 case dated 2014 is spread over 1 month and 11 months without a case. The newest case is dated 2014-03-25: Shareholders filed a derivative lawsuit against Intuitive Surgical alleging the company underreported adverse events and concealed recalls related to its da Vinci surgical robot.
Intuitive Surgical accounts for 1 of the 1 case (100%).
Every case records a person hurt, none fatal. The most common type of event is lawsuit (1). None of the cases has yet gone beyond the first report.
Every case dated 2014
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