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RobotRisk / construction robotics / Trimble

Trimble

Products: site-autonomy. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 17.3/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 99th percentile of 94 construction robotics companies.

Analyst brief

The record contains a single FDA Class II recall, severity 3, for the RTS873 robotic total station, a construction surveying instrument. The entry is regulator-driven, with no press-sourced incident or injury data in the record. Trimble's 98.9th percentile standing places it at the top of the construction-robotics category, a ranking generated by one recall event rather than a sustained pattern.

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S303/26
2025
recall FDA Class II recall: The Trimble RTS873 robotic total station is a solution designed for co · The Trimble RTS873 robotic total stati… openFDA enforcement

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