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Kinova Robotics

Products: robot-arm, cobot. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 5.8/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 96th percentile of 122 machinery oem companies.

Analyst brief

The record holds a single entry: an FDA Class I correction for the Jaco assistive robotic arm addressing a fire/burn hazard. Class I is the FDA's highest-severity recall classification, though the entry itself reflects a corrective action rather than a documented injury or fatality. The index of 5.9 is low in absolute terms but corresponds to the 95.9th percentile within machinery-oem, indicating a category with few recorded incidents overall. The record is a single regulator-driven correction with no other entries.

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S108/19
2024
recall Kinova Jaco assistive robotic arm - FDA Class I correction for fire/burn hazard · All lots/serial numbers of affected Ja… FDA Medical Device Recal

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