RoboticsMedium
Robot at a Chinese Tech Fair Smashed a Glass Booth, Injuring a Visitor
- Occurred
- Nov 16, 2016
- Published
- Nov 18, 2016
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
At the 18th China Hi-Tech Fair, a robot suddenly smashed through a glass booth and injured a visitor, after a staff member reportedly mistakenly pressed a button, causing it to reverse and accelerate.
Developers
- Evolver
Deployers
- Evolver
Harmed parties
- fair visitors
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Physical robot malfunction caused injury at a public event, fitting robotics category with medium severity due to injury but no mass casualty.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8