ISO/TS 15066:2016
The ISO technical specification that defines safety requirements for collaborative robot operations, including biomechanical force and pressure limits for power-and-force-limiting mode. Specifies the contact force monitoring requirements that joint torque sensing must fulfill in collaborative workspaces. Currency note: ISO 10218-2:2025 (published 2025) integrates these collaborative-robot requirements; new installations should consult ISO 10218-2:2025 as the primary normative document while ISO/TS 15066:2016 remains a valid reference for existing certified systems.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Foundations of Robotics and Physical AI.
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The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
The ISO technical specification that defines safety requirements for collaborative robot operations, including biomechanical force and pressure limits for power-and-force-limiting mode. Specifies the contact force monitoring requirements that joint torque sensing must fulfill in collaborative workspaces. Currency note: ISO 10218-2:2025 (published 2025) integrates these collaborative-robot requirements; new installations should consult ISO 10218-2:2025 as the primary normative document while ISO/TS 15066:2016 remains a valid reference for existing certified systems.
The technical specification that first formalized collaborative robot safety requirements, including the biomechanical force and pressure limit tables. As of the April 2025 revision of ISO 10218, its content is folded into ISO 10218-2:2025, and it no longer exists as a separately maintained standalone document.
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