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Starship Technologies Delivery Robot Reportedly Injures Arizona State University Employee
- Occurred
- Sep 19, 2024
- Published
- Sep 19, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A semi-autonomous delivery robot operated by Starship Technologies reportedly struck a pedestrian employed by Arizona State University on the campus sometime in September 2023, purportedly causing injuries after abruptly reversing into her. The robot is reported to have initially knocked the pedestrian down, then moved toward her again while she was still on the ground. The company reportedly offered the victim promo codes and insurance information as an apology. On September 19, 2024, 404 Media made the police report of the incident available.
Developers
- Starship Technologies
Deployers
- Starship Technologies
Harmed parties
- Unnamed Arizona State University employee
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Physical delivery robot caused injury to a pedestrian, fitting robotics category with medium severity due to reported injuries but no mass casualty.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8