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FANUC

Products: Cobot, Industrial arm. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 19.0/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 2 of 7 among Machinery OEM companies with incidents (130 tracked).

Analyst brief

The record contains two entries separated by six years: a 2015 fatality in which a maintenance technician was crushed by a robot at an auto-parts plant, and a 2021 CISA advisory disclosing buffer overflow and integer coercion vulnerabilities in FANUC robot controllers. The severity profile spans the full range, from a low-severity-rated cyber disclosure to a maximum-severity fatality. FANUC's index of 19.0 ranks 2 of 7 companies in Machinery OEM with incident history. The record combines one historical physical safety incident with one more recent disclosed vulnerability, indicating two separate failure modes rather than a single recurring pattern.

Risk index

19.0/100RobotRisk index
12.6/100Median index across the 7 Machinery OEM companies with incident history (130 tracked, 123 with none)
2 of 7Rank in Machinery OEM (of 7 with incident history)
ElevatedRisk band

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident typeUnique incidentsShare
cyber150%
fatality150%

Unique incident list

2 unique incidents on file for this company.

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S131 Aug 2021 cyber CISA advisory: buffer overflow / integer coercion vulnerabilities in FANUC robot controllers · FANUC robot controller product line CISA ICS-CERT
S507 Jul 2015 fatality Ionia, MI, USAMaintenance technician crushed to death by robot at Ventra Ionia auto-parts plant · 1 fatality Manufacturing.net
S1 31 Aug 2021 · cyber · CISA advisory: buffer overflow / integer coercion vulnerabilities in FANUC robot controllers
Location not specified1 supporting source rowhigh confidence
SevDateSupporting source rowSource
S131 Aug 2021CISA advisory: buffer overflow / integer coercion vulnerabilities in FANUC robot controllersCISA ICS-CERT
S5 07 Jul 2015 · fatality · Maintenance technician crushed to death by robot at Ventra Ionia auto-parts plant
Ionia, MI, USA1 supporting source rowhigh confidence
SevDateSupporting source rowSource
S507 Jul 2015Maintenance technician crushed to death by robot at Ventra Ionia auto-parts plantManufacturing.net

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