RobotRisk Autonomous Systems Incident & Risk Register
RobotRisk / other / Royal Navy

Royal Navy

Products: automation-operator. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 13.2/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 37th percentile of 62 other companies.

Analyst brief

The record holds one entry: a June 2026 malfunction of an autonomous drone boat that collided with a yacht in Portsmouth Harbour, severity 2. This is a single-event, press-reported incident with no additional rows, regulatory actions, or repeat entries in the data. At index 13.4 and the 38.7th percentile of the other category, the entity falls in the lower half of its category, consistent with a single low-severity contact incident. The record shows an isolated maritime autonomous-system malfunction, not an established pattern.

Entries by year and severity

012026 S2: 1126
S1S2S3S4S5

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malfunction over time vs category

Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S206/2026 malfunction Portsmouth, England, UKRoyal Navy autonomous drone boat malfunctions, collides with yacht in Portsmouth Harbour · 1 unmanned surface vessel GB News

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