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Yarbo's Promise to Fix the Robot Mower That Ran Someone Over

S4 · 05/2026 · Yarbo

Record

CompanyYarbo
Categoryconsumer robotics
Typeinjury
Date05/2026
Time of daynot documented
Locationno physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
SeverityS4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding)
Scale-
Confidencemedium
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceThe Verge

What happened

A hacker exploited a security flaw to remotely control a Yarbo autonomous robot lawn mower and ran it over a person, causing injury; Yarbo publicly committed to fixing the vulnerability, per The Verge.

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