Manufacturers of industrial robots, safety engineers, and integrators who are involved in the design and production of robotic systems will find ISO 10218-1 essential.

ISO 10218-1 provides the safety requirements for the robot as a machine itself, while ISO 10218-2 focuses on the integration of these robots into complete systems, ensuring comprehensive safety coverage from individual components to fully operational cells.

Yes, ISO 10218-1 can be used in conjunction with other management system standards to foster a holistic approach to organizational safety and quality management.

This document is not applicable to the following uses and products:

— underwater;

— law enforcement;

— military (defence);

— airborne and space robots, including outer space;

— medical robots;

— healthcare robots;

— prosthetics and other aids for the physically impaired;

— service robots, which provide a service to a person and as such where the public can have access;

— consumer products, as this is household use to which the public can have access;

— lifting or transporting people.

NOTE 1 Requirements for robot integration and robot applications are covered in ISO 10218-2:2025.

NOTE 2 Additional hazards can be created by robot applications (e.g. welding, laser cutting, machining). These hazards are addressed during robot application design. See ISO 10218-2:2025.

This document deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events when used as intended and under specified conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.

This document does not cover the hazards related to:

— severe conditions (e.g. extreme climates, freezer use, strong magnetic fields) outside of manufacturer’s specifications;

— underground use;

— use that has hygienic requirements;

— use in nuclear environments;

— use in potentially explosive environments;

— mobility when robots or manipulators are fixed to or part of driverless industrial trucks;

— mobility when robots or manipulators are fixed to or part of mobile platforms;

— use in environments with ionizing and non-ionizing radiation levels;

— hazardous ionizing and non-ionizing radiation;

— handling loads the nature of which can lead to dangerous situations (e.g. molten metals, acids/bases, radiating materials);

— handling or lifting or transporting people;

— when the public, all ages or non-working adults have access (e.g. service robots, consumer products).

Noise emission is generally not considered a significant hazard of the robot alone, and consequently noise is excluded from the scope of this document.

This document is not applicable to robots that are manufactured before the date of its publication.