Products: robot-mower, home-robot. Risk band: Elevated RobotRisk index 25.3/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 98th percentile of 91 consumer robotics companies.
Yarbo's record contains two entries within one month: a May 8, 2026 injury involving a robot mower that ran someone over (severity 4) and a May 7, 2026 cybersecurity vulnerability exposed in approximately 6,000 Yarbo robot lawn mowers (severity 2). The index of 25.5 places the company at the 97.8th percentile within consumer-robotics, driven by the combination of a physical-injury event and a fleet-wide security exposure occurring in immediate succession. The record is press-driven and reflects two distinct failure modes, mechanical safety and cybersecurity, rather than a single repeated cause, though both surfaced within the same short window.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S2 | 05/2026 | cyber | — | Security vulnerability exposed in ~6,000 Yarbo robot lawn mowers · 11,000 devices | Gadget Review / Times of |
| S4 | 05/2026 | injury | — | Yarbo's Promise to Fix the Robot Mower That Ran Someone Over | The Verge |