LawsOf Robots

For robot makers and integration teams

From robot stack to governed evidence

A practical evaluation path for teams asking where RES fits, what must change, and what evidence should exist before anyone calls an integration ready.

Replay-backed use cases

Three patterns worth proving early

These are controlled evaluation patterns, not customer deployment stories. Each one exposes a different place where an autonomy stack should preserve authority, uncertainty, and evidence.

SL-01

Conflicting evidence

Aid without pretending uncertainty disappeared

A simulated robot may need to help a person while a sensor is unavailable and a new assertion conflicts with earlier evidence.

Question exposedCan the system expose the conflict, preserve the safety floor, and authorize only a narrowly bounded response?

SL-02

Unsafe route

Refuse one path without rewriting the request

A requested route presents a physical-harm risk while a separate route may still reach the same destination.

Question exposedCan the unsafe candidate remain refused while a genuinely separate alternative receives its own evaluation?

SL-03

Changed conditions

Stop when authorization no longer fits

Routine work begins under stated conditions, then the environment changes before the task is complete.

Question exposedCan execution stop inside the original constraint and return for a fresh decision instead of stretching old permission?

Run the three fixed replays →

Evaluation path

Six gates between interest and an integration claim

A credible adoption path narrows uncertainty in sequence. It does not begin with a compatibility logo or end when a happy-path demo moves a robot.

  1. Name the consequential work

    Choose one action whose authorization, refusal, cancellation, and evidence actually matter. A bounded task is more informative than a feature inventory.

  2. Draw the authority boundary

    Mark what observes, what maintains belief, what asks RES for a decision, and what can physically act. No component should inherit authority by proximity.

  3. Define the evidence contract

    Specify provenance, confidence, staleness, contradictions, identity, and the execution evidence that must return after a decision.

  4. Build the robot-facing adapter

    Translate authorized goals and cancellations into the named middleware or simulator without translating, widening, or replacing the decision itself.

  5. Exercise degraded paths

    Test unavailable sensors, delayed acknowledgements, conflicting assertions, unsafe candidates, changing conditions, and lost connectivity—not only success.

  6. Verify the record and the claim

    Correlate the decision, governing basis, goal, feedback, and outcome. State only what the named versions, configuration, and evidence support.

Readiness

Ready to examine is not ready to deploy

The public record supports architectural evaluation today. Every physical implementation still has its own compatibility, operational, and certification work.

Available evidence

Inspectable now

  • Published System responsibilities and authority boundaries
  • The complete public Law catalog and RES governance explanation
  • Three fixed Scenario Lab replays with named fixtures and conditions
  • The offline-verification model, security posture, and current Status record
  • GRRC's public registry entry for the scope it independently certifies

No blanket claim

Must be proven per implementation

  • Compatibility with the named robot, middleware, sensors, and actuators
  • Latency, capacity, fault recovery, monitoring, update, and rollback behavior
  • Safe degradation when evidence, coordination, integration, or connectivity fails
  • The exact deployment boundary and treatment of Owner, Robot, and bystander data
  • Any certification claim beyond the independently published scope for RES

A replay can demonstrate a contract. It cannot establish that an untested robot, environment, or deployment is safe or compatible.

Evidence route

Inspect the claim from more than one direction

The shortest useful review moves between architecture, behavior, evidence, and current maturity instead of relying on a single overview page.

01

System Overview

See the operating relationship and which direction authority is allowed to move.

02

RES Governance

Review the component that authorizes, refuses, requires, and records consequential work.

03

Robot Integration

Examine the adapter boundary, compatibility posture, lifecycle, and degraded behavior.

04

Scenario Lab

Step through three deterministic paths across world state, cognition, RES, and execution.

06

Current Status

Separate what is true today, in development, planned, and deliberately not claimed.

Start a bounded evaluation

Bring one consequential task, one failure mode, and one stack diagram.

A useful first conversation begins with the work a robot may attempt, the boundary that would carry it, the conditions that should stop it, and the evidence an Owner, manufacturer, or independent reviewer would need afterward.

A discussion does not establish eligibility, compatibility, certification, or permission to deploy. RES account access and all Owner data remain inside the separate RES Owner UI.