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What incidents have involved Knightscope K5?

Q: What incidents have involved Knightscope K5?

As of 2026-08-25, the DEPLOY registry records 6 tracked incident(s) involving Knightscope K5. Severity distribution: 0 catastrophic, 0 critical, 1 serious, 3 moderate, 2 minor.

Every tracked incident involving Knightscope K5 from Knightscope. As of 2026-08-25, 6 tracked incidents on record.

1 serious3 moderate2 minor

Every incident, most recent first

Knightscope K5 did not summon police when a bystander pressed its emergency button during a fight
moderateother
2019-10-04
Knightscope HP RoboCop emergency button failed to summon police during a Huntington Park fight (2019)
moderateothernone
2019-10-01
Knightscope K5 security robot slipped down steps into a fountain at Washington Harbour, DC (2017)
minormalfunctionnone
2017-07-17
Knightscope K5 veered off course into a fountain at Georgetown Washington Harbour
moderatemalfunction
2017-07-17
Knightscope K5 security robot knocked down and ran over a toddler at Stanford Shopping Center (2016)
minorinjurynone
2016-07-07
Knightscope K5 struck and ran over a toddler at Stanford Shopping Center
seriousinjury
2016-07-07

Rebuilt every 15 minutes. Filter: incidents.model_id = Knightscope K5. Severity ladder: catastrophic, critical, serious, moderate, minor. Kind is orthogonal to severity (collision, recall, malfunction, injury, fatality, and others). This page renders only for models with 3 or more tracked incidents; thinner records 404 rather than surface a one-off. See the full Knightscope K5 record for specs, deployments, and supply chain.