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13 records of kind standard are on the Physical AI Governance Atlas as of September 2026: 12 verified, 1 reported, 0 announced, 0 absent, 0 open. By jurisdiction: China 3, Global 10.
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China announced a national standard system for humanoid robots and embodied AI, and the ministry's page could not be reached
China · verified 16 September 2026
Xinhua's Beijing dispatch of 1 March 2026 says the system was released on Saturday, which is 28 February 2026, at the HEIS annual meeting in Beijing.
China is drafting a five part humanoid robot safety standard, and the first robot control architecture standard took effect in 2026
China · verified 16 September 2026
Plan numbers 20261658-T-604, 20261657-T-604 and 20261653-T-604, issued 31 March 2026, cover general safety, the industrial field and personal and household service, all at drafting stage on 16 September 2026.
China gave humanoid robots and embodied AI their own standards committee, with safety written into its remit
China · verified 15 September 2026
The announcement is 中华人民共和国工业和信息化部公告（2025年第44号）, written 25 December 2025 and published 31 December 2025.
No published safety standard covers a legged humanoid, and the one that would is still a committee draft
Global · verified 15 September 2026
The ISO TC 299 catalogue lists ISO/CD 25785-1, Robotics, Safety requirements for dynamically stable industrial mobile robots, Part 1: Robots, at stage 30.60.
The AI management system standard is the one certificate a robot maker can actually hold today
Global · verified 15 September 2026
ISO/IEC 42001:2023 is edition 1, published 2023-12, 51 pages, at stage 60.60, from ISO and IEC joint technical committee 1 subcommittee 42.
IEEE 7007 is an ontology for ethically driven robotics, and it is the only active standard of its kind
Global · verified 15 September 2026
IEEE lists IEEE 7007-2021 as an active standard: a set of ontologies with different abstraction levels containing concepts, definitions, axioms and use cases for ethically driven design.
UL 4600 is the one published standard that asks an autonomous product for a safety case
Global · verified 15 September 2026
The UL Standards catalogue lists UL 4600, Standard for Evaluation of Autonomous Products, as active, edition 3, with a published date of 17 March 2023 and ANSI approval the same day.
The standard for harm with no broken part is SOTIF, written for road vehicles and borrowed by everyone else
Global · verified 15 September 2026
ISO 21448:2022 is edition 1, published 2022-06, 181 pages, from ISO technical committee 22, and ISO marks it at stage 90.92, to be revised.
Two functional safety standards decide whether a robot's stop is trustworthy, and both predate learned control
Global · verified 15 September 2026
ISO 13849-1:2023 is edition 4, published 2023-04, 152 pages, from ISO technical committee 199, and covers the design and integration of safety related parts of control systems including software.
Autonomous mobile robots in a warehouse are governed as driverless industrial trucks, by name
Global · verified 15 September 2026
ISO 3691-4:2023 is edition 2, published 2023-06, 74 pages, at stage 90.92, international standard to be revised.
The only safety standard written for robots that live with people is from 2014 and is marked for revision
Global · verified 15 September 2026
ISO 13482:2014 was published 2014-02, is 79 pages, and sits at stage 90.92, international standard to be revised.
The collaborative robot document is a 2016 technical specification, and its replacement is still at proposal stage
Global · verified 15 September 2026
ISO/TS 15066:2016 was published 2016-02, is 33 pages, and is at stage 90.92, international standard to be revised.
The world's industrial robot safety standard was reissued in 2025, in two parts, for the robot and for the cell
Global · verified 15 September 2026
ISO 10218-1:2025 is edition 3, published 2025-02, 95 pages, at stage 60.60, from ISO technical committee 299.
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