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Baidu

Products: automation-operator. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 32.9/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 95th percentile of 62 other companies.

Analyst brief

The Baidu entity record, distinct from the Apollo Go product-level entity, holds five entries dated from July 2024 through March 2026, yielding an index of 33.2 and a 95.2nd-percentile standing in the other category, an elevated band. Crash and injury types dominate, with three of five entries involving pedestrian strikes, two of severity 4, including a December 2025 incident in which a pedestrian was trapped beneath the vehicle. The remaining two entries are a 2024 jaywalking-pedestrian strike and a March 2026 system-failure outage in Wuhan. The concentration of repeated pedestrian-strike entries across an 18-month span constitutes a recurring pattern of the same failure mode rather than a single event, and the record is press-driven, built from incident and outage reporting rather than a formal regulatory action.

Entries by year and severity

122024 S2: 12024 S3: 12242025 S4: 22252026 S2: 1126
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By severity

RobotRisk index vs other alternatives

Comparisons over time

RobotRisk index over time

Yearly entries vs category average

injury over time vs category

crash over time vs category

outage over time vs category

Incident log (5 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S203/31
2026
outage Wuhan, ChinaBaidu Apollo Go Robotaxis Stall in Traffic During System Failure in Wuhan · ~100 vehicles Wired
S412/06
2025
injury ChinaBaidu Apollo Go Robotaxi Strikes Pedestrians, One Trapped Beneath Vehicle Interesting Engineering
S412/06
2025 · 09:00
crash Zhuzhou, Hunan, ChinaBaidu Apollo RT6 robotaxi (operated by Hello) hits two pedestrians, traps one under car in Zhuzhou Interesting Engineering
S307/2024 crash ChinaBaidu Apollo Go robotaxi accident sparks safety debate in China Caixin Global
S207/2024 injury Wuhan, ChinaBaidu Apollo Go robotaxi strikes jaywalking pedestrian in Wuhan Associated Press

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