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In brief
A robot in a video has not met your floor, your safety case, or your exception path. Those are the product.
Original CloudExchangers explainer. It describes established public practice and labels the desk’s judgment as analysis. It is not a report of a newly announced event.
The task is smaller than the category
Industrial arms, mobile robots in a warehouse, and humanoid demonstrations are different machines. An arm that repeats a weld in a cell is a mature category with safety standards around it. ISO maintains a catalogue for industrial robots, including safety documents that factories already live with. A humanoid that walks on a stage is a research and marketing object until it has a task, a duty cycle and a stop that a safety engineer will sign.