• Roberta Nelson Shea

    Global Technical Compliance Officer, Universal Robots

    Roberta Nelson Shea is the global technical compliance officer at Universal Robots responsible for product safety and reducing barriers to global acceptance and deployment. She has spent more than 40 years as a manufacturing automation professional, 23 of them additionally chairing the American National Robot Safety Committee. Most recently, as chair of the committee ISO/TC 299 WG3 (previously known as ISO/TC 184/SC2/WG3), Nelson Shea led the introduction of ISO/TS 15066, an extension of the established ISO 10218 standards. ISO/TS 15066 is the first document defining standardized safety requirements with human-robot collaboration.