Ensuring Safety and Compliance in Robotics Engineering

May 19, 2025
Let’s look at the updates in risk management and cybersecurity as outlined in the recently updated ISO 10218 robotics standard with A3’s Carole Franklin. These are shaping the future of robotics engineering amidst emerging collaborative and mobile applications.

Key Takeaways:

  • Understand the significance of updated robotic safety standards
  • Learn about complex safety challenges
  • Discover the importance of integrating cybersecurity practices into robotics design
  • Explore strategies to leverage established safety protocols

Machine Design and Carole Franklin, director of standards and development for robots at A3, talk about the changing landscape of risk management and compliance in the field of robotics engineering in this third of a four-part series.

Here, Franklin talks about how these changes affect the complexity of engineer responsibilities—especially when robots operate outside of controlled environments. With new capabilities come new challenges, and engineers must now design systems that prioritize safety even in public settings, where uncontrolled interactions could occur.

Cybersecurity considerations add another layer to the design process. As robotics technology evolves and becomes more interconnected, ensuring robot cybersecurity measures becomes necessary for minimizing economic risks and safeguarding both hardware and human safety.

Franklin looks at the implications for compliance and discusses the best practices that can bridge the gap between traditional safety paradigms and the demands of contemporary robotic applications.

“On the basis of what we’ve added about cybersecurity in the 10218 2025 edition, what we’re asking is that, as we are rushing to connect everything, that we just pause a minute and make sure that we are incorporating cybersecurity best practices into the connection of industrial robots and everything else,” Franklin said.

Watch additional parts of this interview series with Carole Franklin.

About the Author

Sharon Spielman | Technical Editor, Machine Design

As Machine Design’s technical editor, Sharon Spielman produces content for the brand’s focus audience—design and multidisciplinary engineers. Her beat includes 3D printing/CAD; mechanical and motion systems, with an emphasis on pneumatics and linear motion; automation; robotics; and CNC machining.

Spielman has more than three decades of experience as a writer and editor for a range of B2B brands, including those that cover machine design; electrical design and manufacturing; interconnection technology; food and beverage manufacturing; process heating and cooling; finishing; and package converting.

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