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Machinery OEM

130 tracked companies; 7 companies with incident history, 10 unique documented incidents. Ranked by RobotRisk index; tick marks industry median where nonzero. All industries.

Analyst brief

The register carries 8 incidents against 6 of 122 tracked machinery-OEM entities, a 5-percent record rate. Type mix splits across cyber (3), fatality (3), recall (1), and injury (1), with no single failure mode dominant. Severity is bimodal: three entries at the lowest severity tier and three at the highest, with two mid-tier, indicating the record mixes minor disclosures with a small number of high-consequence events rather than a graduated pattern. Named entities are the sector's largest industrial-arm manufacturers, consistent with a concentration of coverage among market leaders rather than broad category-wide incidence.

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Company risk ranking

CompanyRobotRisk index (0-100)Industry percentileBandIncidents
Mitsubishi Electric (Automation)
22.1
 100% Elevated 2
FANUC
19.0
 99% Elevated 2
KUKA
17.2
 98% Elevated 2
Nachi-Fujikoshi
12.6
 98% Low 1
Kinova Robotics
9.7
 97% Low 1
ABB
4.4
 96% Low 1
Kawasaki Robotics
0.0
 95% Low 1

Recent incidents

SevDateCompanyTypeLocationIncidentSource
S127 Aug 2026Mitsubishi Electric (Automation) cyber WorldwideCISA updates Mitsubishi Electric CNC Series advisory for denial-of-service vulnerability · multiple CNC Series controller versions CISA ICS advisory ICSA-2
S127 Aug 2026Mitsubishi Electric (Automation) cyber WorldwideCISA updates Mitsubishi Electric Multiple FA Products denial-of-service advisory · multiple factory automation product versions CISA ICS advisory ICSA-2
S119 Aug 2024Kinova Robotics recall —Kinova Jaco assistive robotic arm - FDA Class I correction for fire/burn hazard · All lots/serial numbers of affected Jaco arm models FDA Medical Device Recal
S131 Aug 2021FANUC cyber —CISA advisory: buffer overflow / integer coercion vulnerabilities in FANUC robot controllers · FANUC robot controller product line CISA ICS-CERT
S127 Jul 2021KUKA cyber —CISA advisory: hard-coded credentials in KUKA KR C4 robot controller (CVSS 9.8) · KUKA KR C4 controller product line CISA ICS-CERT
S2~May 2017ABB cyber —Researchers demonstrate remote hack of ABB IRB140 industrial robot causing unsafe physical movement · 1 robot (research demonstration) Help Net Security
S507 Jul 2015Nachi-Fujikoshi fatality —Wanda Holbrook killed by robot at Ventra Ionia Mainstamping plant · 1 fatality Manufacturing.net
S507 Jul 2015FANUC fatality Ionia, MI, USAMaintenance technician crushed to death by robot at Ventra Ionia auto-parts plant · 1 fatality Manufacturing.net
S504 Jul 1981Kawasaki Robotics fatality Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant, Akashi, JapanKenji Urada killed by Kawasaki-built robot at Akashi plant (landmark robot fatality) · 1 fatality Wikipedia
S2not documentedKUKA injury Austin, TX, USAKUKA robot arm pins and injures engineer at Tesla Gigafactory Texas · 1 injury Washington Times
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