S3 · 12/2018 · Kiwibot · Berkeley, CA, USA
| Company | Kiwibot |
| Category | sidewalk delivery |
| Type | fire |
| Date | 12/2018 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | Berkeley, CA, USA · UC Berkeley |
| Severity | S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault) |
| Scale | 1 robot; fleet of ~100 grounded pending investigation |
| Confidence | high |
| Verification | Cited source on file; not independently re-verified |
| Source | TechCrunch |
A Kiwi (Kiwibot) delivery robot burst into flames on a sidewalk near UC Berkeley's MLK Student Union due to thermal runaway in a defective replacement battery installed by an employee; bystander used a fire extinguisher and the company temporarily pulled its ~100-robot fleet to investigate.