Every incident
Every consequence
We keep a case per event, not a record per article. A collision, the investigation that follows, the recall, the lawsuit and the settlement stay in one file. Sources are archived the day they publish, because half of them will not open in two years.
- Cases
- 231
- Sources
- 591
- Escalated
- 44
- Updated
- 2026-08-02
Eight years in, the curve bends up
Not who is dangerous. Whose incidents reach consequences.
Fleet sizes are not public, so we cannot report incidents per thousand machines and will not pretend otherwise. What we can measure is internally normalised: the share of a company's recorded incidents that reached a regulator, a recall or a court.
| Company | Cases | Escalated | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoox | 11 | 9 | 82% | 2024 |
| Cruise | 11 | 4 | 36% | 2022 |
| Waymo | 29 | 6 | 21% | 2023 |
| Tesla | 14 | 2 | 14% | 2019 |
| Starship Technologies | 9 | 1 | 11% | 2019 |
| Unitree Robotics | 13 | 0 | 0% | 2025 |
Companies with fewer than 8 cases are left out of the index: at that sample size a single case moves the share by double digits. Currently outside it: Boston Dynamics 5, Baidu 5, Intuitive Surgical 4, Serve Robotics 3, Coco Robotics 3, Ecovacs 3, Avride 3, iRobot 3, and 33 more.
Latest cases
The open web yields a handful of genuinely new events per week. Most additions are developments on cases already on file, or older events entering the register for the first time.
- 2026-07-30AI humanoid robot collapsed during a live demonstration in Taiwan, video went viral.Report
- 2026-07-26Qualcomm's new AI robot collapsed and malfunctioned during an on-stage demonstrationFollow-up
- 2026-07-25A DoorDash delivery robot wandered into an active SWAT operation and refused to leaveFollow-up
- 2026-07-21A fire believed to have been sparked by a robot vacuum broke out at a Hanyang Apartments unit in Apgujeong-dong, Gangnam District, Seoul, forcing more than 20 residents to evacuate and requiring 133 firefighting personnel to extinguish; one resident suffered dizziness from smoke inhalation.Investigation
- 2026-07-17During the opening night of the URKL humanoid robot combat tournament in Shenzhen, an EngineAI T800 robot named 'Matador' had its head knocked off by opponent 'White Eagle' and was knocked out of the fight.Report
- 2026-07-15GM Cruise robotaxi injury lawsuit sent to arbitration due to sign-in wrap agreementReport
- 2026-07-03A robot vacuum exploded at a home in Brabham, Perth, critically burning 25-year-old Lachie Perrem over approximately 75% of his body and destroying the property.Follow-up
- 2026-06-20An unoccupied Zoox driverless robotaxi struggled to navigate heavy smoke at a fire scene on June 20, 2026, braking hard and coming to a stop, prompting a software recall across all 105 of the company's public-road vehicles.Recall
- 2026-06-18Waymo recalled approximately 3,900 robotaxis after 13 known incidents in which vehicles drove into closed freeway construction zones in Phoenix, Arizona, and the San Francisco Bay Area, prompting a voluntary software recall filed with NHTSA.Recall
- 2026-06-11A Daxbot sidewalk robot being directed through a crosswalk by a human operator was struck and damaged by a truck making a right turn at the intersection of West Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and North Palace Avenue in Tyler, Texas.Report
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