> there should be some debate about whether this is even a significant enough incident to require an apology.

The robot behaved in an unexpected way which caused injury to a child. An apology is the absolute bare minimum they could do.

As a parent, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to expect event organisers to have put adequate safeguards in place.

We don’t need to put kids in front of a bear to teach them about the wonders of nature. Likewise, they don’t need to be in the path of a dangerous robot to discover machines.

> As a parent, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to expect event organisers to have put adequate safeguards in place.

Literally everyone thinks that. Who is going to say that they expect event organisers to put inadequate safeguards in place? The issue is that things can go wrong even with adequate safeguards. Life be risky.

> We don’t need to put kids in front of a bear to teach them about the wonders of nature. Likewise, they don’t need to be in the path of a dangerous robot to discover machines.

Attempting to kill kids does seem like a bad strategy. But if you want them to learn about nature, they will actually have to go out into nature. And that'll be a lot more risky than this robot - nature is not safe either.

> Your lack of empathy borders on sociopathy.

I broke a bone at school - I have lots of empathy. It is very painful.

Not international news, and nobody apologised to me. At the end of the day it wasn't a big deal.