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Hanson Robotics

Products: humanoid. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 2.7/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 89th percentile of 54 humanoid companies.

Analyst brief

The record consists of a single entry: the Sophia robot falling in Greece, logged as a malfunction with the lowest severity level (1). This is a single low-severity public-demonstration incident with no injury, recall, or regulatory content. The index of 2.7 is the lowest of the entities in this set, though it still registers at the 88.7th percentile within the humanoid category, indicating sparse incident volume across that category overall. The record is a single isolated event with no pattern or trajectory.

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012024 S1: 1124
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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S104/2024 malfunction GreeceSophia the Robot Falls in Greece · 1 unit GreekReporter.com

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