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Atlas humanoid trips and falls off stage during live demo

S1 · 07/03
2017 · Boston Dynamics · Lowell, MA, USA

Record

CompanyBoston Dynamics
Categoryhumanoid
Typemalfunction
Date07/03
2017
Time of daynot documented
LocationLowell, MA, USA · Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders venue
SeverityS1 (near-miss / disclosed vulnerability)
Scale1 unit
Confidencehigh
VerificationCited source on file; not independently re-verified
SourceAI Incident Database

What happened

Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot tripped over a light projector and fell off the stage while exiting after a demo at the Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders in Lowell, MA; no injuries were reported.

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