Products: Cobot, Industrial arm. Risk band: Elevated RobotRisk index 15.4/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 100th percentile of 122 machinery oem companies.
The record contains two entries separated by six years: a 2015 fatality in which a maintenance technician was crushed by a robot at an auto-parts plant, and a 2021 CISA advisory disclosing buffer overflow and integer coercion vulnerabilities in FANUC robot controllers. The severity profile spans the full range, from a low-severity-rated cyber disclosure to a maximum-severity fatality. The index of 15.5 and 100th percentile place FANUC at the top of the machinery-OEM category, driven by the fatality entry. The record combines one historical physical safety incident with one more recent disclosed vulnerability, indicating two separate failure modes rather than a single recurring pattern.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 09/2026 | cyber | — | CISA ICS advisories: 2 affecting robot/controller products · 2 advisories | CISA ICS-CERT |
| S1 | 08/31 2021 |
cyber | — | CISA advisory: buffer overflow / integer coercion vulnerabilities in FANUC robot controllers · FANUC robot controller product line | CISA ICS-CERT |
| S5 | 07/07 2015 · 14:20 |
fatality | Ionia, MI, USA | Maintenance technician crushed to death by robot at Ventra Ionia auto-parts plant · 1 fatality | Manufacturing.net |