Physical AI & Robotics Safety Consulting
Industrial systems are entering a new phase. After a century of mechanization, electrification, and automation, we are now seeing the rapid emergence of mobile, autonomous, humanoid, and general-purpose robots operating directly alongside people.
These systems are no longer confined behind cages or light curtains. Humanoid, general-purpose, and other service robots are being designed to move through shared human environments—factories, warehouses, hospitals, campuses, and public spaces—bringing new capabilities, new risks, and new regulatory expectations.
As industrial products become more software-defined, AI-enabled, and connected, traditional safety and security paradigms are no longer sufficient on their own. Ensuring responsible deployment now requires an integrated approach to functional safety, autonomy safety, cybersecurity, and governance across the full development lifecycle.
At SecuRESafe (SRES), we help organizations develop and bring these robotic systems to market, and support manufacturers and other end users evaluating, integrating, and deploying them in their operations.
How We Support Humanoid, General-Purpose, and Advanced Industrial Systems
Robotics Safety & Functional Safety Architecture
We help teams apply proven functional safety principles to mobile, interactive, and autonomous robots, including humanoid and general-purpose systems operating in shared environments. This includes safety functions, safeguards, controlled shutdown, and integrated-system hazard considerations involving mobility, manipulation, posture, payloads, and energized tools.Robot Evaluation & Manufacturing Deployment
We help manufacturers and other end users evaluate robots for their intended tasks and operating environments. Support includes defining system boundaries, worksite conditions, human interactions, and foreseeable misuse; assessing hazards involving mobility, manipulation, payloads, and surrounding equipment; and analyzing AI limitations and environmental triggering conditions. We help teams develop safety concepts, safeguards, operating constraints, and evidence needs to support evaluation and deployment decisions.AI Safety & Scenario-Based Validation
AI-enabled robots can create hazards even when conventional faults are not present. We help teams address functional insufficiencies, environmental triggering conditions, perception limitations, and scenario-based verification and validation representative of intended tasks, operating environments, human interactions, and relevant failure conditions.Safety Cases & Deployment Assurance
Safety case development connects safety objectives, engineering evidence, verification and validation, cybersecurity, and operational controls into credible and defensible safety arguments for the robot’s intended deployment.Standards, Regulations & Assurance
We help teams identify and apply the standards, regulatory requirements, and assurance frameworks relevant to their Physical AI systems and intended deployment. The applicable combination depends on the system’s intended tasks, operating environment, human-robot interaction, mobility, manipulation capabilities, use of AI, and target market. Relevant references may include:- Risk assessment and risk reduction: ISO 12100
- Industrial robots and robot applications: ISO 10218-1 and ISO 10218-2
- Industrial mobile robots and their integration: ISO 3691-4 and the ANSI/A3 R15.08 series, where applicable
- Dynamically stable robots: emerging work under ISO/CD 25785-1
- Service and public-facing robots: ISO 13482 and ANSI/CAN/UL 3300, where applicable
- Functional safety and safety-related control systems: ISO 13849, IEC 62061, and IEC 61508
- Functional safety and AI systems: ISO/IEC TR 5469 and the emerging ISO/IEC TS 22440 series
- AI safety references: ISO/PAS 8800 and ISO 21448, developed for road vehicles but provide highly relevant concepts
- Cybersecurity and market requirements: IEC 62443, the EU Cyber Resilience Act, the EU AI Act, Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 on machinery, and other applicable requirements
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Jody and his team have been instrumental for the safety of our organization. Their training programs, led by certified experts, equipped our team with crucial skills in functional safety. Simultaneously, their consulting services provided us with practical guidance to implement safety measures effectively. They not only helped us move forward towards compliance, but they also enhanced the safety and reliability of our systems.
During my time with Jody, it became abundantly clear that he lives and breathes his passion for safety. In addition to a wealth of knowledge and experience in established best practices, Jody presented an open mind to creating a safety case for a technology which was just laying its safety foundations.
I attended one of Jody’s ISO26262 training sessions, where he demonstrated a thorough understanding of safety-critical systems, a meticulous approach to standards, and a practical perspective that proved particularly valuable.
I have had the great fortune of contracting Jody Nelson for Functional Safety services multiple times over the past 12 years. He is the most experienced and most knowledgeable Functional Safety expert I have ever worked with. He has vast experience in many different product technologies, including significant autonomy experience, so he is a very technical safety expert in terms of architecture, safety analysis, requirements and verification. Additionally his experience spans the entire safety lifecycle and includes significant experience in safety reviews. He is the best in the business and the first person I call when seeking safety expertise.
Our company has utilized Jody’s expertise in functional safety for both organization competency development through formal training, and technical support for safety-critical product development. Jody’s professionalism and depth of expertise in embedded safety-critical systems and homologation have helped our company successfully deliver safety critical products to international and domestic end customers.
Truly appreciate - and can only recommend - the expertise of Jody Nelson that he has provided over the past decade. Thanks to Jody, we were able to implement ISO 26262 in our organization. It was great to have Jody on our side when we established the required processes and built the safety culture on top.