ISO 10218-1:2025

Robotics — Safety requirements — Part 1: Industrial robots

This document specifies requirements for the inherently safe design, risk reduction measures and information for use of robots for an industrial environment.

This document addresses the robot as an incomplete machine.

This document is not applicable to the following uses and products:

—     underwater;

—     law enforcement;

—     military (defence);

—     airborne and space robots, including outer space;

—     medical robots;

—     healthcare robots;

—     prosthetics and other aids for the physically impaired;

—     service robots, which provide a service to a person and as such where the public can have access;

—     consumer products, as this is household use to which the public can have access;

—     lifting or transporting people.

NOTE 1        Requirements for robot integration and robot applications are covered in ISO 10218-2:2025.

NOTE 2        Additional hazards can be created by robot applications (e.g. welding, laser cutting, machining). These hazards are addressed during robot application design. See ISO 10218-2:2025.

This document deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events when used as intended and under specified conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.

This document does not cover the hazards related to:

—     severe conditions (e.g. extreme climates, freezer use, strong magnetic fields) outside of manufacturer’s specifications;

—     underground use;

—     use that has hygienic requirements;

—     use in nuclear environments;

—     use in potentially explosive environments;

—     mobility when robots or manipulators are fixed to or part of driverless industrial trucks;

—     mobility when robots or manipulators are fixed to or part of mobile platforms;

—     use in environments with ionizing and non-ionizing radiation levels;

—     hazardous ionizing and non-ionizing radiation;<...

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