Zipline

Robot types: Cargo drone. Risk band: Low RobotRisk index 11.5/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 24 of 26 among Drones / eVTOL companies with incidents (550 tracked).

Risk index

11.5/100RobotRisk index

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

24 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%	4 of 6

Product	Robot type	Status	Incidents	Index
Platform 1	Cargo drone	ga	0	0.0
Platform 2	Cargo drone	early-access	1	11.5

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident type	Unique incidents	Share
malfunction	1	100%

Unique incident list

1 unique incident on file for this company.

Sev	Date	Type	Location	Incident	Source
S2	04 Sep 2026	malfunction	Cypress, TX, USA	Zipline Platform 2 delivery drone suffers in-flight malfunction, parachutes onto Highway 6 near Houston · 1 drone	DroneXL

S2 04 Sep 2026 · malfunction · Zipline Platform 2 delivery drone suffers in-flight malfunction, parachutes onto Highway 6 near Houston

Cypress, TX, USA1 supporting source rowlow confidence

Sev	Date	Supporting source row	Source
S2	04 Sep 2026	Zipline Platform 2 delivery drone suffers in-flight malfunction, parachutes onto Highway 6 near Houston	DroneXL

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