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Concentration, failure modes and trends computed from the sourced incident log. Regenerated with every refresh.

Findings

Charts

Annual unique incidents, split by severity from S1 through S5.
Unique incidents grouped by RobotRisk industry.
Unique incidents grouped by incident type; per-type deduped counts reconcile to the home total.
Company counts include only unique incidents; each label includes its risk band and links to its company page.
The top 10 companies hold 37% of unique incidents.
Rows are industries (linked) and columns are severity levels.
Each cell is the percent of that industry record represented by the incident type.
Quarterly trend uses incidents with month-level or day-level dates.
Source share is computed from each unique incident source tier or source name fallback.

Fatality and catastrophic-loss ledger

Every S5 or fatality entry on file, most recent first.

SevDateCompanyIndustryEventSource
S5~Aug 2026 WaymoAV trucking Pedestrian killed by SUV thrown into stationary Waymo in Dallas FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth
S528 Jul 2026 Dreame TechnologyConsumer robotics FCC bars new foreign-made robot vacuums, including Dreame, from equipment authorization over national-security concerns Consumer Reports / Masha
S513 Jul 2026 SharkNinjaConsumer robotics Shark robot vacuum flaw allows remote code execution via stolen certificate Tom's Hardware / Cyberne
S520 Jun 2026 TeslaAV trucking Tesla crashes into Texas home, killing woman inside; Autopilot engagement disputed Fortune
S508 May 2026 Unattributed (South Korea)Other Worker killed after being struck by descending robot believed stopped, Haman auto parts factory 세이프티퍼스트닷뉴스
S5~May 2026 Johnson & Johnson (Abiomed)Other FDA warns on J&J Abiomed Automated Impella Controllers after death linked to software error MassDevice
S508 Apr 2026 Unattributed (South Korea)Other Worker entangled and killed by machinery at Haman auto parts factory 에너지안전신문
S511 Mar 2026 Intuitive SurgicalMedical robotics Class I recall of da Vinci SureForm stapler reloads after patient death FDA
S511 Dec 2025 Terra DroneDrones / eVTOL Terra Drone CEO Arrested, Named Suspect in Jakarta Office Fire That Killed 22 Jakarta Globe
S509 Dec 2025 Terra DroneDrones / eVTOL Suspected Battery Fire at Terra Drone Indonesia Kills 22 sUAS News
S525 Oct 2025 Grifols (Kiro)Medical robotics Plasma-collection machine issued alerts before Winnipeg donor's fatal cardiac arrest Winnipeg Free Press
S513 Oct 2025 XiaomiHumanoid robots Fatal Xiaomi SU7 Ultra Crash in Chengdu Linked to Automated Driving and Door Lock Failure Bloomberg
S513 Oct 2025 XiaomiHumanoid robots Fatal Xiaomi SU7 Ultra fire after crash in Chengdu raises questions over self-driving feature South China Morning Post
S506 Oct 2025 TeslaAV trucking Tesla driver killed after Autopilot/FSD stopped car in live highway lane, rear-ended by semi futurism.com
S517 Sep 2025 Palermo's PizzaOther Worker killed by robotic machine at Milwaukee pizza plant WISN / Fox News
S514 Sep 2025 WaymoAV trucking Waymo robotaxi involved in motorcyclist fatality, reportedly not at fault Forbes
S527 Jul 2025 LG Energy SolutionEnergy storage Worker killed in accident at LG Energy Solution plant in Holland, Michigan MLive
S510 Apr 2025 MBTAOther MBTA pays $5M settlement over Red Line door-dragging death Boston Herald / WBUR
S5~Apr 2025 StellantisOther Stellantis mechanic killed after bypass key defeated robot safety system Yahoo/OSHA reporting
S529 Mar 2025 XiaomiHumanoid robots Fiery Xiaomi SU7 crash kills three TechNode
S529 Mar 2025 XiaomiHumanoid robots Xiaomi SU7 on NOA (automated driving) collides with highway barrier, kills three CarNewsChina
S5~Mar 2025 CalyxoOther Calyxo discloses patient death linked to aspiration system used in robotic-assisted procedure MassDevice
S520 Jan 2025 WaymoAV trucking While Waymo not blamed in multi-car wreck, it's the first fatal collision involving a driverless car NBC Bay Area
S5~Jan 2025 Unattributed (South Korea)Other Worker in his 50s killed by robot arm at Jinju auto parts factory 중앙일보
S518 Oct 2024 TeslaAV trucking US probes Tesla Full Self-Driving system after pedestrian killed NPR
S518 Oct 2024 TeslaAV trucking NHTSA investigates Tesla Full Self-Driving after crashes including a fatality Green Car Reports
S5~Sep 2024 Geek+Warehouse automation Worker fatally crushed by Geek+ automated robot at Myer Ravenhall distribution centre; WorkSafe Victoria charges Myer and GeekPlus Australia WorkSafe Victoria
S5~Aug 2024 Dearborn Mid-WestWarehouse automation Jeep plant worker crushed to death by conveyor system lacking pinch-point guarding Detroit News
S522 May 2024 Unattributed (South Korea)Other Foreign worker killed by industrial robot during coating operation at Cheonan auto parts factory 세이프티퍼스트닷뉴스
S519 Apr 2024 TeslaAV trucking Tesla in Full Self-Driving mode killed Seattle-area motorcyclist Reuters
S519 Apr 2024 TeslaAV trucking Fatal FSD crash kills motorcyclist, Snohomish County WA Wikipedia
S5~Apr 2024 KatconOther Worker killed by industrial robot at Santa Catarina plant MILENIO / N+ / Proceso
S503 Mar 2024 FordOther Ford Mustang Mach-E on BlueCruise fatally crashes into parked cars in Philadelphia NTSB
S524 Feb 2024 FordOther Ford Mustang Mach-E on BlueCruise crashes into Honda in San Antonio, kills occupant NTSB
S5~Feb 2024 Robot Palletizer (Dallas)Warehouse automation Machine operator crushed to death by palletizer at Schreiber Foods, Carthage MO OSHA
S5~Feb 2024 FordOther Fatal Texas crash involved Ford's auto driving system The Guardian
S5~Nov 2023 TeslaAV trucking Tesla on Full Self-Driving kills pedestrian on Arizona interstate Carscoops
S518 Feb 2023 TeslaAV trucking California family blames Musk for son's death in Tesla Autopilot crash The Independent
S516 May 2022 TeslaAV trucking Tesla Autopilot drove car into tree, killing Colorado man The Denver Post
S510 Apr 2022 MBTAOther Red Line rider dragged to death after door-control-system short circuit WCVB
S5~Dec 2021 Nordco (Wabtec)Rail suppliers Roadway worker killed by Nordco spike machine with non-functional alarm NTSB
S5~Mar 2020 Progress Rail (Caterpillar)Rail suppliers Contractor killed by machine part at Progress Rail's McCook, IL plant Patch
S525 Apr 2019 TeslaAV trucking Fatal Autopilot crash (2019 Key Largo crash) - Tesla later hit with $243M jury verdict NBC News
S523 Mar 2018 TeslaAV trucking Autopilot fatality of Apple engineer Walter Huang, Mountain View, California NTSB
S518 Dec 2017 AmtrakOther Cascades train 501 DuPont, WA derailment - Positive Train Control not yet activated NWPB
S5~Dec 2016 SchiebelDrones / eVTOL Schiebel S-100 crash kills engineer in South Korea suasnews.com
S509 Aug 2016 DematicWarehouse automation Worker killed pinned by mobile work platform during Dematic conveyor installation Manufacturing AUTOMATION
S507 May 2016 TeslaAV trucking First US Autopilot fatality: Joshua Brown, Williston, Florida NTSB
S507 Jul 2015 Nachi-FujikoshiMachinery OEM Wanda Holbrook killed by robot at Ventra Ionia Mainstamping plant Manufacturing.net
S507 Jul 2015 FANUCMachinery OEM Maintenance technician crushed to death by robot at Ventra Ionia auto-parts plant Manufacturing.net
S501 Dec 2013 Metro-NorthOther Spuyten Duyvil derailment - no PTC/alerter to catch engineer error The New York Times
S519 Oct 2013 BARTOther Train in automatic mode kills two track workers near Walnut Creek NTSB
S519 Oct 2013 BARTOther NTSB urgent recommendation for redundant train-worker protection after BART deaths CBS News San Francisco
S522 Jun 2009 WMATAOther Fort Totten Red Line collision (ATC track circuit failure) NTSB
S522 Jun 2009 Alstom Signaling Inc.Rail suppliers Fort Totten crash traced to failed GRS/Alstom Signaling track circuit module NTSB
S5~Jun 2009 WMATAOther WMATA suspends Automatic Train Operation systemwide after Fort Totten crash Railway Age
S504 Jul 1981 Kawasaki RoboticsMachinery OEM Kenji Urada killed by Kawasaki-built robot at Akashi plant (landmark robot fatality) Wikipedia
S4not documented NeuralinkMedical robotics Federal inquiry into Neuralink over animal deaths in implant testing The Guardian
S5not documented Crown EquipmentAMR / mobile robot Brown v. Crown Equipment Corp. - fatal forklift accident lawsuit ForensisGroup

Source share

79 unique incidents are regulator-backed; 350 rely on press or other cited sources. 322 unique incidents were independently re-checked against the cited source.

Latest quarter

2026 Q3 has 33 unique incidents; the prior quarter has 28.

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