We're here to help the robotics industry grow. - Aaron Prather
Standards come from the industry itself. We're also always asking questions of, What do you need? What are the challenges you're trying to overcome? As soon as we discover the problem, it’s then building a team of experts from numerous parts of the ecosystem to start then putting pen to paper and actually writing a standard that everyone can agree to. It then goes to a vote. It has to pass And if it's passed and accepted by the industry, it will become a published standard that is out there now for everyone to use. - Aaron Prather
Go up a step to a regulation. Say OSHA is worried about robot safety in a factory. If an injury happens, heaven forbid OSHA is going to look at the set up of that cell and they're going to actually then look at the standard and like, ‘Why don't you follow the standard?’ If you follow the standard, you would have been fine. - Aaron Prather
It's actually probably good law because it's based off of folks that actually know what they're talking about. It's not a bureaucrat, it's not a politician writing the law. If they're referring back to the standard. And ultimately what we don't want is we don't want politicians making laws that aren't based on any kind of standard, because those don't always work, because the industry doesn't really even accept them. - Aaron Prather
Standards, Regulations, and Laws.
Those that follow know, one of my most quoted lines.... 'Good breaks enable us to go faster' by the incomparable Dr. Rumman Chowdhury
Aaron and team ASTM actively invite interested people to participate in the process.
Help define and write the regs. When pen goes to paper, details matter.
Fun Conversation with Aaron Prather, Director, Robotics & Autonomous Systems Program, ASTM International at the Humanoids Summit,
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Shaping the Future: A Conversation with Aaron Prather at Humanoids Summit 2024
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