{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0127",
 "incident_id": "2026-06-unitree-humanoid-kicks-child-xinjiang",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-06-01",
 "date_occurred": "2026-06-01",
 "title": "A humanoid robot performing martial-arts routines roundhouse-kicked a child in the stomach at a Xinjiang scenic-area show",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "physical_actuation",
  "motion_execution",
  "proximity_awareness"
 ],
 "target_product": "humanoid robot, likely a Unitree G1",
 "target_vendor": "Unitree (probable); scenic-area operator (deployer)",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one child struck in the abdomen; a public entertainment venue with children in unbarriered proximity",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "embodied_agent",
   "no_physical_barrier",
   "bystander_harm",
   "operator_negligence",
   "attribution_uncertain"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "none evident; no barrier separating the robot from spectators",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "police attended; venue response criticised by the child's mother",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robot-clown-wig-roundhouse-kicks-child",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1536"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "What appears to be a Unitree G1 humanoid robot wearing a blue clown wig can be seen confidently executing a roundhouse kick --- squarely in the stomach of a young child in the audience, causing the kid to double over in pain.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "The deployment is the defect, not necessarily the robot: a machine executing high-energy martial-arts motions was placed among unbarriered children, and staff did not react after the strike. Chinese reporting says the robot was under operator control, so it is unclear whether this was an autonomy failure or a teleoperation error — recorded as semi_autonomous with attribution flagged. Model identification is probable, not confirmed. AI Incident Database incident 1536.",
 "risk_category": "safety_harm",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Physical Injury by Autonomous Action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "non_generative_autonomy",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the robot executed the kick that struck the child",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "none"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "not_applicable",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1536
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "none",
 "agent_framework": "industrial_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: Physical Injury by Autonomous 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"
}