Charts · Incidents · updated 22/09/2026
When humanoids go wrong
Only real-world events: a fall, a malfunction, an injury, a recall or a safety investigation, each with the reporting behind it. Opinion pieces and speculation are not incidents and are not counted here.
21 incidents recorded in total, 18 of them in the last 30 days.
The same event covered by five outlets is one incident here: later reports attach to it as extra sources rather than appearing again.
The numbers behind it
| Date | What happened | Robot | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-21 | A Human Fought a 6-Foot-Tall Humanoid Robot in a San Francisco Cage. He Lost. | — | Humanoid news |
| 2026-09-17 | Watch: Humanoid robot 'throws a tantrum' at Beijing conference after remote control fails | — | World Robot Conference |
| 2026-09-16 | Unitree Humanoid Robot Kicks Developer During Testing Session in China (Watch Viral Video) | — | Google News humanoidsHumanoid news |
| 2026-09-15 | Chinese humanoid robot unleashes a flurry of attacks at customers in Russian shop (Video) - New York Post | — | Google News humanoids |
| 2026-09-15 | Humanoid Robot Kicks Soccer Ball So Hard It Smashes Hole in Wall | T1 | Booster Robotics |
| 2026-09-14 | Robot umanoidi cinesi battono i record mondiali di atletica: ecco cosa succede ai World Humanoid Robot Games | H1 | Robot Era |
| 2026-09-14 | A humanoid robot attacks an engineer with flying kicks in China - El Mundo America | — | Google News humanoidsGoogle News humanoidsGoogle News humanoids |
| 2026-09-13 | Humanoid robot attacks its developer on camera as video raises safety concerns | — | Humanoid news |
| 2026-09-13 | A man shoved a robot in a shop and it kicked him back, here’s why it may have done that - Interesting Engineering | — | Google News humanoids |
| 2026-09-13 | World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames - Ars Technica | — | Google News humanoidsGoogle News humanoids |
| 2026-09-13 | Humanoid robot fights back after man pushes it in store — is this the beginning of the uprising? - Yahoo Tech | — | Google News humanoids |
| 2026-09-13 | Humanoid robot nurse gets tangled in hospital queue barrier - Yahoo News UK | — | Google News humanoids |
| 2026-09-13 | Robot decapitated in world’s first-ever humanoid UFC fight | — | EngineAIEngineAIHumanoid news |
| 2026-09-13 | Robots running into walls go viral ahead of 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games | IRON | Astribot |
| 2026-09-13 | The biggest fails from the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games - KTLA | — | Google News humanoidsGoogle News humanoids |
| 2026-09-13 | Unitree humanoid robots hacked from 30 meters; EU buyers at IFA face no import restriction | Unitree Robotics | Unitree |
| 2026-09-13 | Man shoves humanoid robot in Russia, then store clerks scramble as it starts kickboxing | — | Google News humanoidsUnitree |
| 2026-09-09 | Autonomous Race Cars Battle—and Crash—at Imola - Autoweek | — | Google News humanoids |
| 2026-08-24 | Galbot Tennis Robot Takes on Humans at Beijing Robot Games | — | Robot Era |
| 2026-07-18 | Robot keeps fighting after its head snaps off in China humanoid combat tournament | — | EngineAI |
| 2026-07-17 | World’s first humanoid robot MMA fight delivers an unexpected ending at EngineAI event in China | — | EngineAIEngineAI |
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