In this first of a four-part series, Carole Franklin, director of standards and development for robots at A3, unpacks with Machine Design the groundbreaking 2025 update to the ISO 10218 industrial ...

Robot safety standards are guidelines and regulations developed to ensure robots operate safely around humans. Safety ...

Cobots, while designed for safe human interaction, still need to meet industry safety regulations, but their compliance ...

Most recently, as chair of the committee ISO/TC 299 WG3 (previously known as ISO/TC 184/SC2/WG3), Nelson Shea led the introduction of ISO/TS 15066, an extension of the established ISO 10218 standards.

How Robot Manufacturers Can Work with UL to Drive Down the Costs and Complexity of Safety Evaluation The fact is that we are on the leading edge of a new era in robotics. Significant technological ...

Those standards, with obscure names such as R15.06 and ISO 10218, emphasize inherent safe design, protective measures, and rigorous risk assessments for industrial robots.

The latest revision of the standard, ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012, references for the first time ISO 10218-1 & 2 to make it compliant with international standards already in place in Europe.

Service robots often assist human beings in the household, educational, and defense fields, while industrial robots are used in manufacturing and logistics. Read on for more insights on industrial ...

These standards brought risk assessment directives to cobots. “ISO/TS15066 clearly calls out that a risk assessment is necessary to identify the hazards and risks associated with a collaborative robot ...

TOKYO -- Safety rules proposed by Japanese scientists for robots designed to help the elderly and disabled go about their daily lives have been accepted as the new international standard. Japan's ...

The International Organization of Standards (ISO) released its approved drone standards earlier this month, providing the industry in Canada with some important guidance around production quality ...