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It kicked a remote control out of an engineer's hand and narrowly missed him with a spinning kick. The incident was captured on security video. The monitor classed the event as an AI incident, reasoning that the malfunction during testing led to physical aggression towards a human. The source does not state the robot's model, software version, control architecture, the cause of the malfunction, or any follow-up action. 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No incident date, disclosure date or detection date is stated in the body, so no dates are given. The robot's developer, model, version, harness, tools, permissions, autonomy level and guardrails are not stated; Unitree Robotics is named only as the test location. The root cause, trigger, failure class, detection method and adversarial actor are not stated and are left out. No controls held, failed or were missing is stated, and no remediation is reported. Judgements made: deployment_context set to evaluation because the event was a test; agent_involved set to true from the source's description of the AI system; country CN from the stated location; severity set to severe under the safety-of-life test; harm_class set to none_materialised because the source describes a narrow miss, with the source's direct-harm wording not used for the harm tier; risk RK18 chosen as the physical-harm risk. 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