Matternet

Robot types: Drone delivery, Cargo drone. Risk band: Low RobotRisk index 10.1/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 26 of 26 among Drones / eVTOL companies with incidents (550 tracked).

Analyst brief

Matternet's record contains two crash events within a seven-month span in 2019: a January crash into Lake Zurich of a drone carrying clinical lab specimens, and a July crash near children that prompted Swiss Post and Matternet to suspend autonomous delivery operations, both rated severity 2. Both entries are the same failure type — crash — indicating a repeated rather than isolated failure mode for the drone delivery platform. The second event carries an operational consequence (suspension of service), distinguishing it from a contained technical failure.

Risk index

10.1/100RobotRisk index

30.1/100Median index across the 26 Drones / eVTOL companies with incident history (550 tracked, 524 with none)

26 of 26Rank in Drones / eVTOL (of 26 with incident history)

LowRisk band

Products and robot types

Industries: Drones / eVTOL · Sectors: Freight and Package Transportation

Risk is scored per product and robot type: each incident is attributed to the product it names, or to the company's matching robot type.

Robot type	Share of company risk	Rank within type
Cargo drone	100%	6 of 6

Product	Robot type	Status	Incidents	Index
M2 drone	Cargo drone	shipping	2	10.1

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident type	Unique incidents	Share
crash	2	100%

Unique incident list

2 unique incidents on file for this company.

Sev	Date	Type	Location	Incident	Source
S2	30 Jul 2019	crash	Bern, Switzerland	Drone crash near kids leads Swiss Post and Matternet to suspend autonomous deliveries · 2 drone crashes	TechCrunch
S2	~Jan 2019	crash	Switzerland	Matternet Drone Carrying Clinical Lab Specimens Crashes into Lake Zurich · 1 drone	Dark Daily