Robot runs over toddler in shopping centre - BBC News

Security robots at a shopping centre in Silicon Valley have been taken off duty after one of them ran over a toddler. His mother told ABC News the robot had hit her son's head, "he fell down on the floor, and the robot did not stop". The 16-month-old, Harwin Cheng, was left with swelling to his right foot. The robot's developer, Californian start-up Knightscope, apologised for the "freakish accident" and invited the family to visit its Mountain View headquarters. It said: "A child... began running towards the machine. "The machine veered to the left to avoid the child, but the child ran backwards directly into the front quarter of the machine, at which point the machine stopped and the child fell on the ground.