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Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
126
Special Interest Intangible Harm
no
Date of Incident Year
2021
Date of Incident Month
07
Date of Incident Day
16
Estimated Date
No
Risk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
Risk Domain
- AI system safety, failures, and limitations
Entity
AI
Timing
Post-deployment
Intent
Unintentional
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
Ocado has apologised to customers for cancelling their orders after a major warehouse fire broke out when three robots collided.
Around 100 firefighters and 15 fire engines tackled the blaze at the three-storey depot in Erith, south London,…
Ocado had to cancel orders and shut down the facility for a few days.
Robots may be the future of order fulfillment (and cleaning and gardening), but there's still a long way to go before it's completely safe to rely on them. Online grocer …
Robots are credited with boosting efficiency in some industrial use cases. But, as a major UK grocery service just found out, that doesn't mean they're not accident-prone like humans. Ocado — which competes with Amazon Fresh — has been forc…
Online-only grocer Ocado was forced to cancel some customers’ orders last week following a fire at its London warehouse. This marks the second fire Ocado has experienced at one of its warehouses; this time, a three-robot collision is to bla…
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