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Security Robot Rolls Over Child in Mall

Occurred
Jul 12, 2016
Published
Jul 7, 2016
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

On July 7, 2016, a Knightscope K5 autonomous security robot collided with a 16-month old boy while patrolling the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, CA.

Developers

  • Knightscope

Deployers

  • Stanford Shopping Center

Harmed parties

  • Minors

Tags

  • response

Classification

Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Physical robot caused injury to a child during operation.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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