SRES SafeStack | November 2026
SRES SafeStack is the monthly newsletter from SecuRESafe (SRES), featuring expert insights on functional safety, AI assurance, cybersecurity, autonomous systems, and robotics. Each edition includes technical articles, industry developments, upcoming training opportunities, and company news.
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How can robot safety keep up with AI? In this edition of SafeStack, we share our latest Fireside Chat, now available to watch, featuring special guest Marcus Rau of SGS-TÜV Saar. The discussion explores the standards, sensing challenges, and safety approaches shaping industrial, mobile, and humanoid robots.
We also look ahead to SRES AI Safety Week, our remaining public training for 2026, and upcoming conferences SRES will be attending, sponsoring, and speaking at. Keep reading for our latest insights and training opportunities.
Watch the Full SRES Fireside Chat
How Can Robot Safety Keep Up with AI?
What happens when a robot makes an unsafe decision even though its hardware and software are working as designed? How do we demonstrate that perception is safe enough to protect a person? And how do we emergency-stop a humanoid that needs active control to stay balanced?
SRES co-founders Jody Nelson and Gokul Krithivasan joined Marcus Rau, Head of the Certification Body for Functional Safety and Cybersecurity at SGS-TÜV Saar, to explore these questions and the evolving safety landscape for AI-enabled robots.
The discussion examines how established standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO 13849 connect with the developing ISO/IEC TS 22440 series and emerging robotics standards. They also discuss perception, system-level hazard and risk analysis, and the evidence needed to support a credible safety argument.
From the audience Q&A: Can scenario-based safety analysis replace sensor-specific requirements?
Scenario-based analysis can help teams explore hazardous behaviors and edge cases, but it does not replace selecting sensors with appropriate performance for the intended application. The panel also discussed how existing high-integrity sensors may be reused in a new application, provided they are evaluated for its operating conditions.
Watch the full discussion and explore the audience Q&A
Upcoming Public Training
AI Safety Week | November 16–20
As AI moves into safety-related functions across vehicles, robotics, and other physical systems, engineering teams face challenges involving data, model behavior, validation, runtime monitoring, and safety assurance.
SRES AI Safety Week brings together two live virtual courses: ISO/IEC TS 22440, which addresses functional safety and AI systems across industries, and ISO 8800, which focuses on AI safety for road vehicles.
ISO/IEC TS 22440: Functional Safety and AI Systems Training | November 16–17
Explore the emerging approach to functional safety for AI systems and the challenges introduced by data-dependent and difficult-to-predict behavior. This two-day course examines the AI safety lifecycle, hazard and fault analysis, architectural mitigations, data quality, validation, runtime monitoring, and AI-based development tools.
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ISO 8800: AI-Safety Professional (AISP) Training | November 18–20
This three-day course explores the assurance challenges AI introduces in safety-critical automotive systems. Participants build from foundational AI concepts toward the application of automotive and AI safety standards, including ISO 26262, ISO 21448, and ISO/PAS 8800.
Attendees have the option to take the AI-Safety Professional (AISP) certificate exam, accredited by SGS-TÜV Saar, following the course.
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ISO 26262 Functional Safety Training | December 7–10
Develop a practical understanding of ISO 26262 across the automotive functional safety lifecycle. This four-day live virtual course combines practical examples, exercises, and discussion led by SRES instructors with experience implementing functional safety across automotive development programs.
Attendees have the option to take the Automotive Functional Safety Professional (AFSP) certificate exam, accredited by SGS-TÜV Saar, following the course.
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Looking for a different kind of training support?
SRES offers private and customized team training designed around your team’s development context, technology, and priorities. Training can be conducted under NDA and delivered virtually worldwide or on site across North America and Europe. For courses offered in partnership with SGS-TÜV Saar or TÜV Rheinland, optional certificate exams may also be available for private training.
Email us at info@sres.ai to discuss how we can support.
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Meet SRES at Upcoming Conferences
International Robot Safety Conference | November 3–5
SRES Senior Consultant Allan Watson will be attending the International Robot Safety Conference at Huntington Place in Detroit, hosted by A3 – Association for Advancing Automation.
Allan is a systems and safety expert with over 25 years of experience, including work across automotive, aerospace, and robotics. If you’ll be there and would like to connect, send Allan a message. He’d be happy to meet up and talk safety.
Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley | December 1–2
SRES is sponsoring Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley. If you’re attending, stop by booth 11 and connect with our team, including co-founders Jody Nelson and Gokul Krithivasan.
On December 2 at 11:00 a.m., Jody Nelson will present “The Emerging Safety Architecture for Physical AI: Integrating Functional Safety, SOTIF, and AI Assurance” as part of the summit’s breakout sessions.
Latest SRES Insights
The Importance of SOTIF Principles in Autonomous Robotics
Autonomous robots can behave unsafely even when their hardware and software work as designed. Jody Nelson explores how SOTIF principles, STPA, operational design domains, and scenario discovery can help teams identify and address these challenges alongside traditional functional safety.
EU AI Act Overview: Implications for Automotive Product Development | Part 2
Explore how the EU AI Act affects AI used in safety-relevant automotive functions. This article examines how existing automotive safety standards and engineering processes can support compliance, introduces regulatory sandboxes, and maps key AI Act requirements to automotive development practices.
Thank you for reading the November edition of SafeStack. We hope you enjoy the Fireside Chat and the perspectives it brings to the challenges of AI-enabled robot safety.
Be sure to follow SRES on LinkedIn for insights and updates between editions. We look forward to continuing the conversation next month.
