Starship’s Autonomous Food Delivery Robot Allegedly Stranded at Railroad Crossing in Oregon, Run over by Freight Train

March 2, 2022

A Starship food delivery robot, deployed by Oregon State University, allegedly failed to cross the railroad safely, resulting in a collision with an oncoming freight train. This incident underscores the need for responsible AI governance and trustworthy practices. For those interested in shaping safer AI environments, JOIN US.

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Alleged deployer: oregon-state-university
Alleged developer: starship-technologies
Alleged harmed parties: oregon-state-university, freight-train-crew

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/176

Data source

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

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

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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