Humanoid manipulation, cleared for the factory floor.
Tomco built the safety case for a humanoid hand and upper-body manipulation platform — collaborative robot standards layered over an ML-policy runtime monitor and SOTIF for unstructured grasping.
How the engagement ran.
The client's humanoid platform performs unstructured grasping and assembly tasks alongside human operators on a contract-manufacturing floor. The form factor straddles ISO 10218 (industrial robots), ISO 13482 (personal-care robots), and ANSI/RIA R15.08 (mobile manipulators) — none of which fully covered the failure modes of a learned manipulation policy.
Tomco built a layered safety case: traditional collaborative-robot standards for the kinematic envelope, ISO/PAS 8800 for the ML policy itself, and a bespoke runtime monitor that bounds policy outputs against a hand-engineered safety envelope. AFSPs co-signed; agents kept the policy-vs-envelope trace current after every retrain.
From concept to first commercial deployment in 18 months, with the safety case structured to absorb future policy upgrades without re-opening the standards mapping.
Who signed it.
Names withheld by policy. Credentials and program references verifiable on request under NDA.
The regime, line by line.
One signed thread, end to end.
- 01Mechanical envelope — kinematic FMEA, force/torque limits
- 02Perception — object/human detection coverage, edge cases
- 03ML manipulation policy — ISO/PAS 8800 lifecycle, dataset & evaluation
- 04Runtime envelope monitor — bounds policy outputs to safe sub-space
- 05Human-robot collaboration — ISO/TS 15066 power & force limits
- 06Signed release — AFSP co-signature on each policy version
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