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Starship Delivery Robot Ran into Problems Traversing Campus Terrains

April 3, 2022

A Starship autonomous delivery robot struggled to navigate campus terrains of UCLA, reportedly getting stuck into a planter and falling off the stairs.
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Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/519

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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