The world's industrial robot safety standard was reissued in 2025, in two parts, for the robot and for the cell

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PAG-2026-0019

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Standard

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Global

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15 September 2026

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15 September 2026

• ISO 10218-1:2025 is edition 3, published 2025-02, 95 pages, at stage 60.60, from ISO technical committee 299.
• ISO 10218-2:2025 is edition 2, published 2025-02, 223 pages, and specifies requirements for the integration of industrial robot applications and industrial robot cells.
• Part 2 excludes underwater, law enforcement, military, airborne and space, medical, healthcare and service robot uses.
• ISO 10218-1 states that it does not apply to robots manufactured before the date of its publication.

The machine, The AI inside it, Workers and bystanders. Stated means the document you can open below says it; silent means the ledger read the document and it does not.

The machineStated

This is the evidence a maker and an integrator produce for robot and cell safety, and the reference every national rule points at.ISO, ISO 10218-1:2025 Robotics, Safety requirements, Part 1: Industrial robots, primary source, 1 February 2025.

The AI inside itSilent

The parts are written around deterministic safety functions and performance levels, not around a controller that keeps learning in service.ISO, ISO 10218-1:2025 Robotics, Safety requirements, Part 1: Industrial robots, primary source, 1 February 2025.

Workers and bystandersStated

Protective separation, stop functions and the safeguarded space are the mechanism by which workers stay out of harm.ISO, ISO 10218-1:2025 Robotics, Safety requirements, Part 1: Industrial robots, primary source, 1 February 2025.

1. 223 pages

   Pages in ISO 10218-2:2025

   ISO, ISO 10218-2:2025 Robotics, Safety requirements, Part 2: Industrial robot applications and robot cells, primary source, as of 1 February 2025.

Your presumption of conformity, your customer's purchase order and your inspector's question all point at these two documents, and both were reissued in February 2025. If your safety file still cites the 2011 edition of part 1 or the 2011 edition of part 2, it is citing withdrawn text. Budget the gap analysis, because part 2 alone is 223 pages of integration requirements.

1. ISO, ISO 10218-1:2025 Robotics, Safety requirements, Part 1: Industrial robotsPrimary · 1 February 2025
2. ISO, ISO 10218-2:2025 Robotics, Safety requirements, Part 2: Industrial robot applications and robot cellsPrimary · 1 February 2025

• VerifiedStandardPAG-2026-0020

  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.

• VerifiedGuidancePAG-2026-0009

  US robot safety enforcement runs on general machine guarding plus a technical manual that points at private standards

  United States · verified 15 September 2026

  The chapter states that the safety standard for robots is part 1 and part 2 of ANSI and RIA R15.06-2012, Industrial Robots and Robot Systems, Safety Requirements.

• VerifiedBinding lawPAG-2026-0001

  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.

• Open questionOpen questionPAG-2026-0032

  Open question: how do you evidence a safety case for a controller that was learned rather than specified?

  Global · verified 15 September 2026

  ISO 13849-1 and IEC 62061 assume a specified safety function with quantifiable reliability in high or continuous demand mode.

• Open questionOpen questionPAG-2026-0029

  Open question: who is liable when a behaviour the robot learned causes the harm?

  Global · verified 15 September 2026

  The AI Liability Directive proposal, which would have eased proof for exactly this case, was withdrawn and published as withdrawn in the Official Journal on 6 October 2025.

• VerifiedStandardPAG-2026-0028

  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.