Starship Technologies

Products: automation-operator. Risk band: Elevated RobotRisk index 27.8/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 19 of 45 among Other companies with incidents (53 tracked).

Analyst brief

The record contains two entries: a September 2024 injury to an Arizona State University employee reportedly caused by a Starship delivery robot (severity 3), and a February 2024 incident in which a delivery robot damaged a parked car and left the scene (severity 2, malfunction). Both entries are press-driven, with no regulatory action recorded, and the seven-month interval between two distinct failure types indicates more than a single isolated event. Severity across the two entries is moderate, with one injury and one property-damage/malfunction event. Starship Technologies's index of 27.8 ranks 19 of 45 companies in Other with incident history. The record as given documents two distinct operational failure events within one year.

Risk index

27.8/100RobotRisk index

23.5/100Median index across the 45 Other companies with incident history (53 tracked, 8 with none)

19 of 45Rank in Other (of 45 with incident history)

ElevatedRisk band

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident type	Unique incidents	Share
malfunction	1	50%
injury	1	50%

Unique incident list

2 unique incidents on file for this company.

Sev	Date	Type	Location	Incident	Source
S2	~Jan 2024	malfunction	Helsinki, Finland	Starship delivery robot damages parked car, leaves scene	Euro Weekly News
S3	not documented	injury	Tempe, AZ, USA	Starship Technologies Delivery Robot Reportedly Injures Arizona State University Employee · 1 robot	The Verge