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Designing a Construction Robot Around Certification

Akshay Chalana • 7/19/2026 • 8 min read

Case Studies

How Raise Robotics turned machinery safety standards into an engineering roadmap — and made safety a product asset instead of a retrofit.

Virtual Testing, SiL, and Task FMEA for Humanoid Deployment Risk

Akshay Chalana • 7/19/2026 • 7 min read

Use Cases

How humanoid and mobile-manipulator teams use living Task FMEAs, virtual testing, and software-in-the-loop evidence to validate behavior and scale deployments — before (or without) a near-term NRTL gate.

1X Today, 100 Million Humanoids Tomorrow: Why Autonomous Machines Need a Risk Engineering Layer

Akshay Chalana • 7/8/2026 • 6 min read

Perspectives

Safety tooling was built for frozen designs. Autonomous machines never stop changing. Here's why the next generation of robots, vehicles, and aircraft needs a living risk engineering layer—and how it's already working in production.

Case Study: De-Risking Humanoid Robotics at 1X Technologies

Akshay Chalana • 4/18/2025 • 5 min read

Case Studies

How 1X Technologies partnered with Saphira to identify safety risks, produce investor-ready artifacts, and accelerate go-to-market for their next-gen humanoid robot.

Saphira AI Accelerates ISO 10218-1 Compliance for RobCo

Akshay Chalana • 9/4/2024 • 6 min read

Case Studies

How RobCo leveraged Saphira AI’s intelligent compliance tools to achieve ISO 10218-1 certification in record time.

Task Success Isn't Enough: Connecting Physical AI Safety Research to Engineering Practice

Akshay Chalana • 11/10/2026 • 6 min read

Perspectives

What ASIMOV, SafeVLA-Bench, and RoboHarm reveal about physical AI safety—and how to connect their findings to system requirements, protective measures, and evidence that survives change.