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The full record as JSON and CSV: 62 US incidents involving robots and autonomous systems, 1979 to 2026, free to use with attribution.
JSON
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Every field, including sources, outcomes and key facts. Best for code.
CSV/data/incidents.csv
One row per incident. Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, R and pandas.
RSS/rss.xml
New and updated records as they are published.
62 records · last changed November 13, 2026 · rebuilt on every publish
License and citation
The dataset is published under CC BY 4.0. You may copy, analyze and republish it, including commercially, as long as you credit Robo Incidents and link to https://roboincidents.com.
Suggested citation: Robo Incidents, “US robot and autonomous-system incident record,” https://roboincidents.com/data/, retrieved [date].
Read this before you count anything
- This is a record, not a census. It contains the incidents that have been documented here, not every incident that has occurred. See coverage.
- Counts are not rates. Comparing companies or states by number of records ignores how many vehicles or robots each operates and how differently they are required to report.
- Check
status. Records markedallegedordisputeddescribe claims, not established facts. Filter them out if your analysis needs confirmed events only. - Records change. Investigations conclude and lawsuits settle. Use
record_updatedand re-download.
Fields
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| id | Stable identifier; also the last part of the record URL. |
| date, date_precision | When the incident happened, at the precision known: 2018-03-18 (day), 2015-07 (month) or 1979 (year). |
| city, state, country | Where it happened. State is a USPS code. |
| category | One of: autonomous-vehicles, driver-assistance, delivery-robots, drones, industrial-robots, warehouse-robots, humanoid-robots, surgical-robots, security-robots, consumer-robots, agricultural-robots, other. |
| severity | One of: fatal, serious-injury, minor-injury, property-damage, near-miss, disruption. |
| fatalities, injuries | Counts of people killed and of people injured but not killed. |
| operator, manufacturer, system | Who was running the system, who built it, and what it was. |
| companies | Normalized company names, used for the per-company pages. |
| autonomy_mode | One of: driverless, autonomous-with-safety-operator, driver-assistance, automated-fixed, teleoperated, remotely-piloted, unknown. |
| status | One of: confirmed, under-investigation, alleged, disputed. |
| agencies | Agencies that investigated or acted. |
| outcomes, key_facts | JSON only. Consequences and the main established facts, as sentences. |
| sources | JSON: title, publisher, URL and date of every source. CSV: source_urls. |
| record_published, record_updated | When the record was added and last changed. |