Who is involved

Members

Organizations and engineers who build, deploy, or maintain open source software in systems where failure causes harm, and have committed to doing the assurance work in the open.

Polymath Robotics builds core autonomy and safety systems for off-highway vehicles: yard trucks, mining and forestry machines, agricultural equipment, and ground support. The stack is vehicle- and sensor-agnostic and runs onboard rather than in a datacenter, integrating with both new machines and decades-old ones through retrofit or OEM partnership. Deploying autonomy onto heavy equipment that moves under its own power near people means every open source component underneath it has to carry an explicit safety argument.

polymathrobotics.com →

exida delivers premier functional safety and cybersecurity expertise across all industries. Whether working with open source, closed source, or proprietary technology, our solutions scale to meet your needs - covering software tools, discrete components, integrated systems, and complete installations to ensure uncompromising security and safety for every application.

White paper: qualification and certification of open source software →

Inkstrom is an agile engineering partner creating safety-critical embedded software for the next generation of autonomy. We build the high-performance, resilient code that powers industries where failure is not an option. Our software drives autonomous vehicles, robotics, and smart medical devices. We bridge the gap between fast-paced tech innovation and unyielding regulatory requirements. We prove that software can be both cutting-edge and flawlessly reliable.

inkstrom.com →

FireFly Robotics, Inc. (formerly FireFly Automatix, Inc.) advances electrification and physical AI for the turf management industry and beyond. Founded over 15 years ago with the first manned robotic harvester using electric motion control, FireFly leads in operator-assisted and autonomous systems. Its all-electric Autonomous Mowing Platform (AMP) and harvesters, which are manufactured in Salt Lake City, Utah, serve golf courses and turf farms worldwide.

fireflyautomatix.com →

mule.bot works on industrial autonomy for mining, construction, and heavy industry: open, standards-anchored safety functions that let autonomous machines and skilled people share a working site. Ben Miller leads the safety case: twenty-five years across Pronto.ai, SafeAI, and ASI/Epiroc, Caterpillar and Komatsu fleets commissioned, doctorate in mining focused on the application of functional safety to AHS.

mule.bot →

Safe Robots is the agentic safety and risk team for robotics companies. Forward deployed engineers work with AI agents, a risk model, data lake and ontology. We catch risks early and continuously so they don't become critical. We are automating safety and standards compliance for autonomous systems, with a view toward automating risk assessment too.

saferobots.co →

Arron Griffiths - Google Cloud PIE Robotics. I have extensive experience deploying real-world robotics safety control systems across nuclear, research, and industrial applications, both indoor and outdoor environments with all the challenges. I held key engineering roles at Clearpath Robotics (AE) and InDro Robotics (Director of Engineering); I am now a "Lead Robotics Automation" at Google Cloud PIE. I support the OSSC in building an open, safety-critical autonomous technology stack.

Quiltext builds Worker Safety AI for field crews, construction sites, kitchens, buildings, warehouses and docks: positioned cameras, sensors and edge compute that verify protective controls against each client's own safety standard. When the machines arrive, they follow the same rules.

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Testopia builds and operates private wireless networks. Our solutions provide robust wireless where no other infrastructure reaches. The work is network engineering for environments general-purpose carriers don't serve well: spectrum and SAS coordination, RF path-loss and interference characterization, and dual-path failover design for fleets and safety systems that depend on the link staying up.

testopia.co →

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Members are organizations and engineers doing safety assurance on open source together and in public. Each of us contributes analysis and review; all of us use what comes out. If that is the work you want to be doing, get in touch.