SI Robot Proving Ground™: Staged Promotion of Governed Robots from Twin to Contained Cell, Supervised Site and Open Site, in which Each Stage Has Declared Gate Evidence Judged by an Accredited Body Rather Than the Maker, Promotion Is Specific to a Robot Model, a Skill Set and a Site, Field Incidents Demote Only What They Implicate, Entry to Places Shared with the Public Requires Notice to Those Affected, and Every Gate Decision Is a Signed Record

Inventor(s)

• Edward D. H. Wang, SI OrganizationFollow

Abstract

This disclosure describes how a governed robot earns the right to work in progressively less controlled places. Four stages are declared: the robot's certified twin; a contained test cell; a supervised site, where trained staff watch and can stop the robot at every moment; and an open site, where the robot works among people who have no special training. Each stage declares gate evidence: the tests to be passed, the hours or tasks to be completed, the stop drills to be performed and the maximum rate of incidents and near misses. Promotion from one stage to the next is decided by an accredited body on the recorded evidence, not by the robot's maker or operator alone. A promotion applies to a declared combination of robot model, software version, skill set and site, so that a robot proven in one warehouse is not thereby proven in a hospital, and a new software version or skill begins again at a declared stage. In the field, an incident or a pattern of near misses demotes only what it implicates, such as one skill at one site, while unaffected combinations continue. Entry to an open site that the public shares requires notice to those affected, in a declared form, and a channel through which they can report concerns. Each stage records what the robot did not encounter, so that gaps in evidence are visible. Every test, gate decision, promotion, demotion and notice is a signed record.

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Recommended Citation

Wang, Edward D. H., "SI Robot Proving Ground™: Staged Promotion of Governed Robots from Twin to Contained Cell, Supervised Site and Open Site, in which Each Stage Has Declared Gate Evidence Judged by an Accredited Body Rather Than the Maker, Promotion Is Specific to a Robot Model, a Skill Set and a Site, Field Incidents Demote Only What They Implicate, Entry to Places Shared with the Public Requires Notice to Those Affected, and Every Gate Decision Is a Signed Record", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/12893