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 →
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Provenance Headline Kind Date ↑ Subject Sources ✓ DEPLOY VERIFIEDWaymo robotaxi blocked an ambulance responding to Austin mass shooting Traffic disruption 2026-03-01 Waymo Driver (6th gen) at Sacramento, California, USA 1 ✓ DEPLOY VERIFIEDFour Zoox robotaxis stalled on Hacienda Avenue near the Las Vegas Strip, blocking traffic lanes Traffic disruption 2026-04-01 Zoox Robotaxi at Miami 1 ✓ DEPLOY VERIFIEDWaymo robotaxi blocked Dallas first responders from reaching fatal Oak Cliff apartment explosion Traffic disruption 2026-05-28 Waymo Driver (6th gen) at Sacramento, California, USA 2 ✓ DEPLOY VERIFIEDZoox robotaxi stalled at Flamingo Road and Valley View intersection in Las Vegas Traffic disruption 2026-06-01 Zoox Robotaxi at Miami 1 ✓ DEPLOY VERIFIEDDoorDash delivery robot 'Dot' rolled into an active Chandler Arizona SWAT crime scene and refused to leave, forcing police to call a DoorDash technician to remove it Traffic disruption 2026-06-15 Dot at Phoenix, Arizona, USA 1 ✓ DEPLOY VERIFIEDWaymo robotaxi drove into oncoming traffic lane in Inglewood amid World Cup congestion Traffic disruption 2026-06-24 Waymo Driver (6th gen) at Sacramento, California, USA 1 ✓ DEPLOY VERIFIEDWaymo fleet gridlocks San Francisco Presidio after July 4 fireworks; one robotaxi drove over lit firework with passengers inside Traffic disruption 2026-07-04 Waymo Driver (6th gen) at Sacramento, California, USA 1 ✓ DEPLOY VERIFIEDTesla robotaxi seen going wrong way down one-way street in Tampa one day after driverless service launch Traffic disruption 2026-07-22 Tesla Robotaxi (Model Y ADS) at Orlando, Florida, USA 1