Listed below are some of the relevant and essential standards for current robotics work. The standards are mainly from ISO, with relevant ones from IEC, SS, JIS, IEEE, ASTM, etc. Standards related to safety are highlighted in red.
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Common Requirements for Robots
IEC 60204-1:2016
Safety of Machinery - Electrical equipment of Machinery - Part 1 General Requirements
IEC 60335-2-2:2019
Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-2: Particular requirements for vacuum cleaners and water-suction cleaning appliances
IEC 62061:2005
Safety of Machinery: Functional Safety of safety-related electrical, electronic and programmable electronic control systems (functional verses that of performance in ISO 13849)
IEEE 730-2014
IEEE Standard for Software Quality Assurance Processes
IEEE 1059-1993
IEEE Guide for Software V&V (Verification and Validation) Plans
IEEE 1012-2016
IEEE Standard for System, Software, and Hardware Verification and Validation
ISO 8373:2012
Adopted as Singapore Standard: SS ISO 8373:2017
Robots and robotic devices - Vocabulary
ISO 9787:2013
Adopted as Singapore Standard: SS ISO 9787:2017
Robots and robotic devices - Coordinate systems and motion nomenclatures
ISO 11161:2007
Safety of Machinery: Integrated Manufacturing Systems - Basic Requirements (e.g. Multi-Robot-Lines)
ISO 12100:2010
Safety of machinery - General principles for design - Risk assessment and risk reduction
ISO 13849-1:2015
Safety of machinery - Safety-related parts of control systems - Part 1: General principles for design
ISO 13849-2:2012
Safety of machinery - Safety-related parts of control systems - Part 2: Validation
ISO/TS 15066:2016
Adopted as Singapore Standard: TR ISO/TS 15066:2016
Robots and robotic devices - Collaborative robots
ISO 19649:2017
Adopted as Singapore Standard: SS ISO 19649:2017
Mobile robots - Vocabulary
ISO-25000:2005 (REPLACING ISO-9126 AND ISO-14598)
Software Engineering - Software product Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) - Guide to SQuaRE
Industrial Robots
ISO 9283:1998
Manipulating industrial robots - Performance criteria and related test methods
ISO 9409-1:2004
Manipulating industrial robots - Mechanical interfaces - Part 1: Plates
ISO 9409-2:2002
Manipulating industrial robots - Mechanical interfaces - Part 2: Shafts
ISO 9946:1999
Manipulating industrial robots - Presentation of characteristics
ISO 10218-1:2011
Adopted as Singapore Standard: SS ISO 10218-1:2016
Robots and robotic devices - Safety requirements for industrial robots - Part 1: Robots
ISO 10218-2:2011
Adopted as Singapore Standard: SS ISO 10218-2:2011
Robots and robotic devices - Safety requirements for industrial robots - Part 2: Robot systems and integration
ISO 11593:1996
Manipulating industrial robots - Automatic end effector exchange systems - Vocabulary and presentation of characteristics
ISO/TR 13309:1995
Manipulating industrial robots - Informative guide on test equipment and metrology methods of operation for robot performance evaluation in accordance with ISO 9283
ISO 14539:2000
Manipulating industrial robots - Object handling with grasp-type grippers - Vocabulary and presentation of characteristics
ISO/TR 20218-1:2018
Robotics - Safety design for industrial robot systems - Part 1: End-effectors
ISO/TR 20218-2:2017
Robotics - Safety design for industrial robot systems - Part 2: Manual load/unload stations
JIS B 0138-1996
Industrial robots - Graphical symbols of mechanism
JIS B 8439:1992
Industrial robots - Programming language slim
JIS B 8440-1995
Industrial robots - Intermediate code STROLIC
Service Robots (General)
IEC 60335-1:2020
Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 1: General requirements
ISO 18646-1:2016
Adopted as Singapore Standard: SS ISO 18646-1:2017
Robotics - Performance criteria and related test methods for service robots - Part 1: Locomotion for wheeled robots
ISO 18646-2:2019
Robotics - Performance criteria and related test methods for service robots - Part 2: Navigation
Service Robots (Exoskeleton)
ASTM F3323
Standard Terminology For Exoskeletons and Exosuits Practice For Labelling and Information on Exoskeletons and Exosuits
ASTM F3358
Standard Practice For Labelling and Information on Exoskeletons and Exosuits
ASTM WK65295
New Test Method for Load Handling When Using an Exoskeleton
ASTM WK65296
New Practice for Recording Environmental Conditions for Utilization with Exoskeleton Test Methods
ASTM WK65346
New Guide for Safety Considerations in Designing and Selecting Exoskeletons for Industrial, Medical and Military Applications
ASTM WK65347
New Guide for Utilization of Digital Human Modeling
ASTM WK65587
New Guide for Assessing System Training
Service Robots (Healthcare)
IEC/TR 60601-4-1:2017
Medical electrical equipment - Part 4-1: Guidance and interpretation - Medical electrical equipment and medical electrical systems employing a degree of autonomy
IEC 80601-2-77:2019
Medical electrical equipment - Part 2-77: Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of robotically assisted surgical equipment
IEC 80601-2-78:2019
Medical electrical equipment - Part 2-78: Particular requirements for basic safety and essential performance of medical robots for rehabilitation, assessment, compensation or alleviation
ISO 13482:2014
Adopted as Singapore Standard: SS ISO 13482:2017
Robots and robotic devices - Safety requirements for personal care robots
ISO/TR 23482-1:2020
Robotics - Application of ISO 13482 - Part 1: Safety-related test methods
ISO/TR 23482-2:2019
Robotics - Application of ISO 13482 - Part 2: Application guidelines
JIS B 8446-1:2016
Safety requirements for personal care robots - Part 1: Static stable mobile servant robot with no manipulator
JIS B 8446-2:2016
Safety requirements for personal care robots - Part 2: Low power restraint-type physical assistant robot
JIS B 8446-3:2016
Safety requirements for personal care robots - Part 3: Self-balancing person carrier robot
JIS B 8456-1:2017
Personal care robots - Part 1: Physical assistant robots for lumbar support
