Products: Humanoid, Mobile manipulator, Quadruped, Wheeled biped. Risk band: Low RobotRisk index 1.4/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 87th percentile of 54 humanoid companies.
Boston Dynamics's record consists of one 2017 event: an Atlas humanoid robot tripping and falling off stage during a live demonstration, classified as a malfunction at severity 1. The index of 1.4 is low, but the 86.8 percentile places the company high within the humanoid category, indicating most humanoid-category entries carry lower comparative standing despite the minor severity of this single event. The incident is a public demonstration failure rather than a deployed-operations or regulatory matter, and the record shows no repetition. Standing in this category is driven by the visibility of the single event, not by accumulated volume or severity.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 07/03 2017 |
malfunction | Lowell, MA, USA | Atlas humanoid trips and falls off stage during live demo · 1 unit | AI Incident Database |