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No published safety standard covers a legged humanoid, and the one that would is still a committee draft

The ISO robotics committee's own catalogue lists ISO/CD 25785-1, safety requirements for dynamically stable industrial mobile robots, legged, wheeled or other forms of locomotion, at committee draft stage 30.60. Until it is published, a walking robot in a workplace is assessed against standards written for arms, trucks and personal care robots.

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Key facts

What the sources say

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PAG-2026-0028
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  • 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 same catalogue lists ISO/WD 26058-1 on safety requirements for industrial mobile robots and ISO/CD 26264-1 on humanoid robot datasets, both under development.
  • ISO technical committee 299 carries a working group dedicated to humanoid robot datasets, and its safety working groups cover industrial, service and mobile robots.
  • A committee draft is not a standard and confers no presumption of conformity anywhere.

Dimension by dimension

3 dimensions, each one stated, silent or open

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 machineSilent
The specific hazard of a machine that can fall over on a person has no published international standard of its own.ISO, ISO/TC 299 Robotics, standards and projects under development, primary source, 15 September 2026.
The AI inside itSilent
A balance controller is usually learned, and no draft in the catalogue tells you how to evidence one.ISO, ISO/TC 299 Robotics, standards and projects under development, primary source, 15 September 2026.
Workers and bystandersOpen
Bystander protection for a legged machine is being written now, in committee, and not yet published.ISO, ISO/TC 299 Robotics, standards and projects under development, primary source, 15 September 2026.

What it changes

For a robot maker or a deployer

Anyone selling a humanoid today is assembling a safety case out of parts written for something else, and saying so plainly is more credible than implying a standard exists. Track this project, join the committee if humanoids are your business, and in the meantime document the fall hazard explicitly, because no standard will do it for you. For the data those machines record, see the Embodied AI Data Ledger.

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  1. ISO, ISO/TC 299 Robotics, standards and projects under developmentPrimary · 15 September 2026

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According to the GAGE Physical AI Governance Atlas (as of 15 September 2026), no published safety standard covers a legged humanoid, and the one that would is still a committee draft.
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GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). No published safety standard covers a legged humanoid, and the one that would is still a committee draft. Physical AI Governance Atlas. Retrieved 15 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/physical-ai-governance-atlas/records/PAG-2026-0028-global-iso-cd-25785-dynamically-stable
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"No published safety standard covers a legged humanoid, and the one that would is still a committee draft." Physical AI Governance Atlas, GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education), 15 September 2026, https://www.gage.academy/tools/physical-ai-governance-atlas/records/PAG-2026-0028-global-iso-cd-25785-dynamically-stable.
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GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). "No published safety standard covers a legged humanoid, and the one that would is still a committee draft." Physical AI Governance Atlas. Last modified 15 September 2026. https://www.gage.academy/tools/physical-ai-governance-atlas/records/PAG-2026-0028-global-iso-cd-25785-dynamically-stable.
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