Robots Need SOTIF Too
Abstract: On June 2, 2026, the Chinese national standard project 机器人预期功能安全实施指南 entered public notice, with the comment period scheduled to close on July 2, 2026. I have put this direction into OpenTopic as the second open research theme: Robot SOTIF. The goal is not to copy autonomous-driving SOTIF directly into robotics, but to build an evidence chain from standards, ODD, scenarios, triggering conditions, physical interaction, LLM/VLA decision safety, and finally to a defensible safety case. ...