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How a Robot Proves It Is Safe to Work Beside You

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A robot that is safe in a cage is not safe beside you. In a shop aisle, a worker restocks a shelf while a scanning robot rolls past, and a shopper steps in with a child beside her. Can that robot be trusted to share a workspace with a person? This episode tests two applications only, retail shelf-scanning in a shop aisle and a cobot arm in a shared cell, against three tests: Prove, Contain, and…