Applies to: Industrial robots and robot systems
ISO 10218:2025 is the baseline international standard for industrial-robot safety. Part 1 covers the robot itself; Part 2 covers the robot system, integration, and application. The 2025 revision integrates collaborative-robot provisions previously in ISO/TS 15066. US teams cite it via the harmonised ANSI/RIA R15.06.
Audit-readiness, not certified. Roboticks is not itself a certified verification tool. Conformity assessment is the manufacturer's responsibility (with notified-body involvement where required). We assemble the verification evidence your assessor reads.
Manufacturer-side requirements for the bare robot: protective stop behaviors (Category 0/1/2), enabling devices, single-fault tolerance for safety functions, axis limiting, speed limiting, collaborative-operation modes (safety-rated monitored stop, hand guiding, speed-and-separation monitoring, power-and-force limiting).
Integrator-side requirements for the deployed robot system: risk assessment per ISO 12100, safeguarding the workspace, layout for collaborative operation, validation of the integrated system including the application program and end-effector. Where the robot will be used, this is where most verification energy goes.
Ingest the standard as a requirement document (ReqIF if your safety team has it in Polarion / Jama; PDF if not). Link tests with @confirms("ISO10218-1-5.10.3") on the protective-stop test, ROBOTICKS_CONFIRMS("ISO10218-2-5.11.5.4") on the speed-and-separation monitoring gtest. The matrix shows live coverage per section.
These are example requirements you could derive from ISO 10218:2025 and link to verifying tests via the @confirms decorator. Not exhaustive and not a substitute for a domain-expert risk assessment.
ISO10218-1-5.4Means must exist so that only one source of control commands the robot at a time. Verifiable via integration tests that attempt simultaneous teach-pendant + program control and assert the rejection.
ISO10218-1-5.10.3Protective stop must remain effective under single-fault conditions. Fault-injection test: drop the safety-bus heartbeat, assert robot reaches the protective stop state within the published reaction time.
ISO10218-2-5.11.5.4Collaborative operation requires the robot to maintain protective separation distance based on speed. Verifiable via sim scenarios that approach with measured-human stand-in and assert the robot's speed reduction.
Ingest ISO 10218:2025 as a ReqIF export from your requirements tool, or as a PDF for the LLM extractor. Link tests via @confirms. Watch the matrix turn green as PRs land.