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Verified robot incidents

Every recorded robot incident in the DEPLOY registry. Collisions, injuries, fatalities, recalls, regulatory actions. Each one tied to a real deployment, model, or company, and sourced.

This is the sourced accountability record, not a safety essay. Every incident below names a subject and cites at least one source. Injury and fatality entries require at least two independent sources before they enter this index. Retracted entries are excluded from this listing and remain reachable at their canonical URLs with the retraction recorded. How we verify →

See also: all verified deployments, verified robotaxis, humanoid companies.

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Regulatory actions
Kindall (16)Collision (2)Injury (4)Recall (3)Regulatory action (1)Malfunction (2)Property damage (2)Other (2)

16 of 16 incidents shown. Sort by severity to surface fatality / injury / recall first.

ProvenanceHeadlineKindDateSubjectSources
VerifiedWaymo suspended Atlanta robotaxi service after a robotaxi was stuck amid flooding (May 2026)Malfunction2026-05-21Waymo Driver 6th-gen at Atlanta2
VerifiedWaymo temporarily suspended freeway robotaxi service in four cities to improve construction-zone performance (May 2026)Other2026-05-21Waymo Driver 6th-gen1
VerifiedWaymo issued a software recall and halted San Antonio service over robotaxis driving into floods (May 2026)Recall2026-05-14Waymo Driver 6th-gen at San Antonio3
VerifiedNHTSA opened an investigation into Avride after 16 robotaxi crashes in Dallas and AustinRegulatory action2026-05-06Avride Robotaxi (Hyundai Ioniq 5)3
VerifiedApollo Go robotaxis in Wuhan stranded passengers in service-wide malfunctionMalfunction2026-03-31Apollo RT6 at Wuhan1
VerifiedServe Robotics delivery robot 'Nasir' shattered a CTA bus shelter in Chicago's West TownProperty damage2026-03-22Serve Robotics3
VerifiedTesla robotaxis logged 17 NHTSA-reported incidents in Austin, including two teleoperator-caused crashesCollision2026-03-01Tesla Robotaxi (Model Y ADS) at Austin5
VerifiedZoox robotaxi struck an opening car door in San Francisco, injuring a street ambassadorInjury2026-01-17Zoox Robotaxi at San Francisco2
VerifiedZoox recalled 332 robotaxis over unnecessary lane-crossings near intersectionsRecall2025-12-23Zoox Robotaxi2
VerifiedAvride delivery robot struck a cyclist in Jersey City, who suffered a broken clavicle and concussionInjury2025-10-22Avride Robotaxi (Hyundai Ioniq 5) at Jersey City2
VerifiedServe Robotics delivery robot and mobility-scooter user involved in sidewalk encounter, West Hollywood (Sept 2025)Other2025-09-12Serve Gen 3 at West Hollywood4
VerifiedZoox recalled ~270 robotaxis after a Las Vegas collision with a passenger carRecall2025-04-08Zoox Robotaxi2
VerifiedStarship Technologies delivery robot reportedly struck a parked car and left the scene, Helsinki (2025)Property damage2025-01-01Starship Bot1
VerifiedWaymo robotaxi and Serve Robotics delivery robot collided in West Hollywood (Dec 2024)Collision2024-12-27Waymo Driver 6th-gen1
VerifiedCruise driverless robotaxi dragged a pedestrian ~20 feet in San FranciscoInjury2023-10-02Cruise AV (Chevrolet Bolt) at San Francisco6
VerifiedStarship Technologies delivery robot reportedly struck and injured a pedestrian at Arizona State University (Sept 2023)Injury2023-09-01Starship Bot3