buildConfirmed4 publishers Robocurve's RoboHarm harness put three frontier policies through 300 fixed trials on a pair of $2,999 arms. The published per-trial logs show where a refusal landed and what it cost in model calls.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 44%
- Operator
- Operator 36%
- Investor
- Investor 20%
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives40
- Confidence70
buildConfirmed3 publishers Agility showed Digit 5's specifications on September 15 and expects general availability by the end of 2027. That leaves the barrier-free safety architecture two years to produce field data for buyers weighing a 284-pound biped.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 40%
- Operator
- Operator 40%
- Investor
- Investor 20%
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
An Entrepreneur contributor counts 16.5 million represented workers and roughly 463,000 new members in a year as a warning to employers, and then forecasts that the growth stops. Employers planning 2027 pay get two readings of one number.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives72
- Confidence32
A contractor's complaint about gas exposure grounded Zoox's Atlanta test fleet in August. The remedy on the federal record is one sensor and a battery swap, in cars where an emergency room named carbon monoxide.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption45
- Hype gap−12
- Incentives68
- Confidence62
Autonomous vehicle safety cases rest on crash comparisons with human drivers, but exclusive OSHA data reported by TechCrunch carries a second injury count: the sprains and whiplash logged by the test drivers training the cars.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives62
- Confidence48
Agility rebuilt Digit's legs, payload and safety architecture for customers who asked to run the robot without barriers between it and their staff. The OSHA field evaluation it was designed for has not happened yet.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives78
- Confidence52
The company says its Digit 5 humanoid can work safely beside people, holds more than $300 million of multiyear orders, and does not expect general availability until the end of 2027. It plans to list at $2.5 billion.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives84
- Confidence56
The safety case for driverless cars is argued in collision counts, and TechCrunch's read of federal injury filings shows the people inside the test fleet paying for it in whiplash and months off work.
Reality
- Evidence47
- Adoption68
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives54
- Confidence53
A TechCrunch review of OSHA filings counts more than two dozen injuries to Waymo and Zoox test drivers across 2024 and 2025. The figures are public at all only because both companies file as higher-hazard taxi operators.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption68
- Hype gap−22
- Incentives66
- Confidence67
The new BMJ cohort counts confirmed cases against every NFL decedent, which makes 25% arithmetic and everything above it argument. That distinction is what liability models will run on.
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives62
- Confidence71