Incident 519: Starship Delivery Robot Ran into Problems Traversing Campus Terrains
Description: A Starship autonomous delivery robot struggled to navigate campus terrains of UCLA, reportedly getting stuck into a planter and falling off the stairs.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Starship Technologies developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Starship Technologies.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
519
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2022-04-03
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
seanbmcgregor.com · 2022
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During a recent stop over at UCLA, I opportunistically recorded a video of a delivery robot that almost immediately got into trouble. What follows is an introduction to the design elements of delivery robots as shown by a series of unfortun…
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