Matternet

Products: drone-delivery. Risk band: Low RobotRisk index 10.3/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 19 of 19 among Drones / eVTOL companies with incidents (177 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. Matternet's index of 10.3 ranks 19 of 19 companies in Drones / eVTOL with incident history.

Risk index

10.3/100RobotRisk index

28.4/100Median index across the 19 Drones / eVTOL companies with incident history (177 tracked, 158 with none)

19 of 19Rank in Drones / eVTOL (of 19 with incident history)

LowRisk band

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