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Starship

Products: n/a. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 16.9/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 87th percentile of 16 sidewalk delivery companies.

Analyst brief

The record holds two entries: a 2023 injury incident in which a sidewalk delivery robot knocked down and injured a parking attendant at Arizona State University (severity 3), and a 2019 shutdown in which units were pulled from the University of Pittsburgh over an accessibility and safety hazard (severity 2). The two events span different campuses and four years, with the trajectory moving from a lower-severity operational shutdown to a higher-severity injury event. This yields an index of 14.9, placing Starship at the 86.7th percentile of the sidewalk-delivery category, with a low band assignment despite the two-event count. Both entries are press-reported, campus-specific incidents rather than formal regulatory actions.

Entries by year and severity

012023 S3: 1123
S1S2S3S4S5

By incident type

By severity

RobotRisk index vs sidewalk delivery alternatives

Comparisons over time

RobotRisk index over time

Yearly entries vs category average

injury over time vs category

Incident log (2 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S32023 injury Tempe, AZ, USAStarship delivery robot knocks down and injures ASU parking attendant · 1 robot / 1 person injured KJZZ / Fox 10 Phoenix /
S2 shutdown Pittsburgh, PA, USAStarship robots pulled from University of Pittsburgh over accessibility/safety hazard · fleet at one campus TribLIVE / WESA / Pittsb

Alternatives in sidewalk delivery

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