ISO 10218-1/-2:2025 Robotics — Safety Requirements

The core international safety standard for industrial robot design and integration, revised with a new edition in 2025.

ISO 10218 is developed by ISO/TC 299, the robotics technical committee; Part 1 covers the design of the industrial robot itself, and Part 2 covers integrating a robot into an application and a work cell. The edition published in February 2025 replaces the 2011 version, with major changes: the previously separate collaborative-robot specification ISO/TS 15066 is folded in, with human contact force and pressure limits moved into Part 2; the object of analysis shifts to the ‘robot application,’ including the workpiece, program, and surrounding equipment; functional safety no longer uniformly demands PL d, Category 3, but instead assigns a default level to each safety function; robots are now classified into Type 1 and Type 2 by hazard level; and cybersecurity requirements are added. It doesn't apply to service robots accessible to the public, or to medical or human-carrying applications — those fall under standards such as ISO 13482.

ExampleA collaborative arm sharing a workstation with a worker to drive screws must have its integrator run a risk assessment under ISO 10218-2:2025; if power and force limiting is used, the contact force and pressure at every body part the arm might touch must be measured and verified to stay under the standard's limits.

Also called

ISO 10218:2025, ISO 10218-1:2025, ISO 10218-2:2025, ANSI/A3 R15.06-2025

Related

ISO/TS 15066 Robots and Robotic Devices — Collaborative Robots · Power and Force Limiting · Speed and Separation Monitoring · Collaborative Robot · Industrial Robot · ISO 13849 Performance Level (PL a–e, Category B–4) / Safety Integrity Level (SIL, IEC 62061/61508)

Sources

ISO 10218-1:2025 Robotics — Safety requirements — Part 1: Industrial robots
ISO 10218-2:2025 Part 2: Industrial robot applications and robot cells
IBF Solutions: New standards for industrial robots EN ISO 10218-1 and -2

As of

2025-02