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Designing a Construction Robot Around Certification

Designing a Construction Robot Around Certification

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Living Safety Evidence: Connecting Simulation to Continuous Compliance

Living Safety Evidence: Connecting Simulation to Continuous Compliance

Saphira AI
Saphira AI 6/9/2026 4 min read

Transform robotics safety validation with living evidence that automatically updates from simulation campaigns, maintaining continuous compliance for human-adjacent systems.

Embodied AI Will Need an Observability Stack

Embodied AI Will Need an Observability Stack

Akshay Chalana
Akshay Chalana 5/21/2026 1 min read

Nobody Owns the Assurance Graph

Nobody Owns the Assurance Graph

Akshay Chalana
Akshay Chalana 5/21/2026 1 min read

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