Standards & Protocols
Reference frameworks for responsible robot labor.
As robots become part of labor systems, institutions need more than broad principles. They need clearer ways to describe responsibility, define operational boundaries, document supervision, and review real-world use.
Robot Responsibility Protocol
A public-interest framework for making responsibility visible when robots participate in labor, services, operations, or decision-support systems.
Responsibility cannot be delegated to the robot.
- Clarifies design, deployment, supervision, maintenance, incident, and explanation responsibility
- Reduces responsibility gaps in robot labor systems
- Connects responsibility to control, authorization, supervision, and benefit
Robot Labor Operation Standards
A public-interest reference framework for the responsible deployment and supervision of robots used as part of labor systems.
Robot labor should not operate without purpose, boundaries, supervision, records, and review.
- Defines how robot labor should be introduced, bounded, supervised, documented, and reviewed
- Distinguishes responsible operation from simple technical deployment
- Supports periodic review, suspension, and retirement decisions
How the two frameworks differ
The Robot Responsibility Protocol focuses on accountability: who designs, deploys, supervises, maintains, explains, and answers for robot labor systems.
The Robot Labor Operation Standards focus on practice: how robot labor should be introduced, limited, supervised, documented, reviewed, and stopped when necessary.
Principles
The Charter states the organization’s public-interest commitments: legibility, accountability, disclosure, stewardship, and public clarity.
Frameworks
The standards and protocols translate those commitments into reference frameworks for responsibility and operation.
Documentation and dialogue
The Registry, Disclosure Framework, and Working Group support documentation, explanation, and institutional dialogue.
Limits of these materials
These materials are proposed as public-interest reference frameworks. They are not legal standards, certification rules, regulatory requirements, or technical safety specifications.