Our lightning talk at ROSCon Global 2026
Two minutes at ROSCon Global in Toronto on why safety work on robots is slow, costly and private, and what changes when it is done in the open.
Updates
News
Announcements, published artifacts, and notes from the consortium's work.
An interview on why the consortium exists
Andra Keay talks to Ilia Baranov for Robots & Startups about the near-miss that started it, what a protective stop has to do that an emergency stop cannot, and what the consortium will and will not publish.
Robots & Startups covers the consortium
Andra Keay's newsletter reports on the consortium's first public introduction, at a Silicon Valley Robotics event in San Francisco on September 2, and repeats the call for members.
The first deliverable is a protective stop
The consortium's opening piece of work is the assurance case for an open source safety stop, a device still being built, with its evidence written in public alongside it.