{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0078",
 "incident_id": "2026-03-coco-chicago-bus-shelter",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-03-25",
 "date_occurred": "2026-03-24",
 "title": "A Coco delivery robot smashed a second Chicago bus shelter two days after a rival robot destroyed the first",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_navigation",
  "perception"
 ],
 "target_product": "Coco delivery robot",
 "target_vendor": "Coco Robotics",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "property_damage"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one CTA bus shelter at North Avenue and Larrabee Street, Old Town; part of a two-company municipal pilot programme",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "transparent_obstacle",
   "cross_vendor_repeat",
   "physical_world",
   "pilot_programme"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "onboard perception",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "Coco accepted cleanup and repair costs and opened an investigation",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/25/robots-gone-wild-food-delivery-robots-smash-2-bus-shelters-in-chicago/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1568"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "For the second time in a week, a self-driving food delivery robot has crashed into a CTA bus shelter, sending shards of glass all over the sidewalk.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Recorded separately from the Serve crash because the repetition across two independent vendors within 48 hours is the finding: this is not one company's perception bug but a shared blind spot in sidewalk-robot autonomy, appearing in the same city under the same pilot programme. Neither vendor learned from the other in time. AI Incident Database incident 1568.",
 "risk_category": "reliability",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Destructive or irreversible action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "non_generative_autonomy",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the delivery robot drove into the bus shelter",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "physical_safety_system"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1568
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "none",
 "agent_framework": "delivery_robot",
 "model_provider": "none",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "unsafe_actuation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Destructive or irreversible action",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "out_of_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "out_of_scope",
 "asi_reason": "out of scope: non_generative_autonomy: no ASI mechanism describes the failure",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}