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European Union: Physical AI Governance Atlas
European Union carries 10 records on the Physical AI Governance Atlas as of September 2026: 7 verified at a primary source, 0 reported, 0 announced with no document yet, 1 searched and absent, and 2 open questions. By kind: binding law 6, program or strategy 2, open question 2.
Binding law
6 records
EU product safety law already names learning and predictive functions as a safety factor for consumer robots
European Union · verified 15 September 2026
Article 6(1)(h): when required by the nature of the product, the evolving, learning and predictive functionalities of the product are a factor in assessing safety.
The EU withdrew its AI Liability Directive, so there is no AI specific fault regime for a robot that harms someone
European Union · verified 15 September 2026
Official Journal C/2025/5423 of 6 October 2025 lists COM(2022)496 final, procedure 2022/0303 (COD), among the withdrawn Commission proposals.
The revised EU product liability rules make software a product and reach a robot that changes after it is sold
European Union · verified 15 September 2026
Article 4(1): product means all movables, even if integrated into or inter connected with another movable or an immovable, and it includes electricity, digital manufacturing files, raw materials and software.
A robot that talks to people owes an AI Act disclosure, and a robot that reads emotions owes another
European Union · verified 15 September 2026
Article 50(1) puts the duty on the provider to design the system so the person is informed, unless it is obvious to a reasonably well informed and observant person.
The Digital Omnibus took AI enabled machinery out of the AI Act high risk lane and handed it to the Machinery Regulation
European Union · verified 15 September 2026
Omnibus Article 1 point 41: in Annex I, Section A, point 1 is deleted, and Section B gains point 21, Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 on machinery.
The EU Machinery Regulation applies from 14 January 2027 and puts self evolving safety functions in the third party lane
European Union · verified 15 September 2026
Article 54: the Regulation shall apply from 14 January 2027, with earlier dates for the notified body and delegated act provisions.
Program or strategy
2 records
The EU has no dedicated robotics strategy document, only a research policy page and a section of the AI strategy
European Union · verified 15 September 2026
The Commission robotics policy page describes a portfolio of over 120 research projects and coordination actions and the SPARC public private partnership.
The EU's robotics plan is one section of the Apply AI Strategy, and it funds uptake rather than rules
European Union · verified 15 September 2026
Section 2.2 opens on the installed base: more than 90.000 industrial robots installed in 2023 and more than 400 service robotics producers in Europe.
Open question
2 records
Open question: is a fleet wide behaviour update a new placing on the market?
European Union · verified 15 September 2026
The Machinery Regulation applies to machinery placed on the market from 14 January 2027 and treats a substantially modified machine as a new product.
Open question: is a humanoid in a home a machine, a consumer product or a care robot?
European Union · verified 15 September 2026
The General Product Safety Regulation applies only where no specific Union law with the same objective regulates the safety of the product, and only to risks those rules do not cover.
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What binds a robot maker or deployer in European Union?
EU product safety law already names learning and predictive functions as a safety factor for consumer robots (verified); The EU withdrew its AI Liability Directive, so there is no AI specific fault regime for a robot that harms someone (verified); The revised EU product liability rules make software a product and reach a robot that changes after it is sold (verified); A robot that talks to people owes an AI Act disclosure, and a robot that reads emotions owes another (verified); The Digital Omnibus took AI enabled machinery out of the AI Act high risk lane and handed it to the Machinery Regulation (verified); The EU Machinery Regulation applies from 14 January 2027 and puts self evolving safety functions in the third party lane (verified). Each record page quotes the document and says what it changes for a robot maker or a deployer.
What is the state funding or planning in European Union?
The EU has no dedicated robotics strategy document, only a research policy page and a section of the AI strategy (absent); The EU's robotics plan is one section of the Apply AI Strategy, and it funds uptake rather than rules (verified). Each record page quotes the document and says what it changes for a robot maker or a deployer.
What has nobody settled in European Union?
Open question: is a fleet wide behaviour update a new placing on the market? (open question); Open question: is a humanoid in a home a machine, a consumer product or a care robot? (open question). Each record page quotes the document and says what it changes for a robot maker or a deployer.
What has nobody settled in European Union?
Open question: is a fleet wide behaviour update a new placing on the market?; Open question: is a humanoid in a home a machine, a consumer product or a care robot?. The ledger poses these and does not answer them.
What does European Union not have?
The EU has no dedicated robotics strategy document, only a research policy page and a section of the AI strategy. Each absent record says where the ledger looked and when, so the search can be repeated.
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