Products: Cobot, Industrial arm. Risk band: Low RobotRisk index 10.3/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 99th percentile of 122 machinery oem companies.
The record contains two entries: a 2021 injury in which a robot arm pinned an engineer at a Tesla Gigafactory, and a 2021 CISA advisory disclosing hard-coded credentials in the KR C4 robot controller with a CVSS score of 9.8. The severity profile is mixed, with a moderate physical injury and a low-severity-rated but critical-CVSS cybersecurity vulnerability. The index of 8.1 and 97.5 percentile place KUKA in the low band overall but high standing within machinery-OEM, indicating the category itself carries limited scored volume. The record combines one operational safety incident with one disclosed security vulnerability, representing two distinct failure modes rather than a single pattern.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 07/27 2021 |
cyber | — | CISA advisory: hard-coded credentials in KUKA KR C4 robot controller (CVSS 9.8) · KUKA KR C4 controller product line | CISA ICS-CERT |
| S2 | injury | Austin, TX, USA | KUKA robot arm pins and injures engineer at Tesla Gigafactory Texas · 1 injury | Washington Times |