TY - GEN
T1 - Normative Safety Regulations for Collaborative Robots
AU - Geiger, Laura
AU - Guadarrama-Olvera, J. Rogelio
AU - Cheng, Gordon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 IEEE.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Collaborative robots (cobots) are designed to operate alongside humans in shared workspaces, enhancing efficiency and flexibility. Like all machines and robots, they are regulated by the EU Machinery Regulation and must bear the CE marking before market introduction. While the regulation provides broad and general safety requirements, harmonized standards such as ISO 12100, ISO 13849, and IEC 62061 offer more specific guidance for achieving safety in machinery design. For industrial robots, ISO 10218 outlines safety requirements, with the technical specification ISO/TS 15066 further addressing unique considerations of collaborative industrial robots. By providing a comprehensive overview of these regulations and standards, this paper aims to guide manufacturers through the critical steps required for achieving legal compliance and ensuring safe market introduction of cobots in Europe.
AB - Collaborative robots (cobots) are designed to operate alongside humans in shared workspaces, enhancing efficiency and flexibility. Like all machines and robots, they are regulated by the EU Machinery Regulation and must bear the CE marking before market introduction. While the regulation provides broad and general safety requirements, harmonized standards such as ISO 12100, ISO 13849, and IEC 62061 offer more specific guidance for achieving safety in machinery design. For industrial robots, ISO 10218 outlines safety requirements, with the technical specification ISO/TS 15066 further addressing unique considerations of collaborative industrial robots. By providing a comprehensive overview of these regulations and standards, this paper aims to guide manufacturers through the critical steps required for achieving legal compliance and ensuring safe market introduction of cobots in Europe.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=86000228481&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SII59315.2025.10871019
DO - 10.1109/SII59315.2025.10871019
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:86000228481
T3 - 2025 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2025
SP - 707
EP - 714
BT - 2025 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2025
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2025 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2025
Y2 - 21 January 2025 through 24 January 2025
ER -