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Ehime Children's Castle (Matsuyama, Ehime)

Products: automation-operator. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 10.5/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 26th percentile of 62 other companies.

Analyst brief

The record holds a single entry: a July 2026 incident in which an autonomous cart struck an elementary-school child and ran over the child's calf at the facility, severity 2. This is a single-event, press-reported record with no prior incidents, regulatory actions, or repeat failure modes documented. At index 10.6 and the 25.8th percentile of the other category, the entity sits in the lower quartile, consistent with one moderate-severity injury and no additional volume. The record shows an isolated autonomous-vehicle contact incident involving a pedestrian, not an established pattern.

Entries by year and severity

012026 S2: 1126
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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S207/20
2026 · 12:10
injury Matsuyama, Ehime, JapanAutonomous cart strikes elementary school child, runs over calf, at Ehime Children's Castle · 1 cart Yomiuri Shimbun / TBS Ne

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