EVIDE for Home Robotics
EVIDE Home Robot Safety is a proposed evidence service for household robotics. The resident selects the event categories that matter in their home. When an enabled event occurs, the robot or its service platform can send a limited, structured intake to EVIDE for independent preservation. The precise triggers, supported data and integrations depend on the robot manufacturer and the agreed deployment.
An owner or authorized resident could select from event categories such as:
| Household situation | Example of a bounded intake |
|---|---|
| Human request for assistance | A resident asks the robot for help; preserve the request category, time, robot response and escalation status. |
| Fall or possible injury | Preserve that the robot reported a possible fall, its stated uncertainty, any local assistance action and whether a designated contact was notified. |
| Obstructed route or unsafe movement | Preserve an unexpected navigation stop, collision risk, contact event or blocked exit, with the declared operating zone. |
| Access and visitors | Preserve a configured access event or unexpected entry report, without turning a robot observation into proof of intrusion. |
| Privacy boundary | Preserve that a robot entered a restricted room, activated a sensor contrary to a configured rule, or attempted an unauthorized data transfer. |
| Physical assistance | Preserve an interrupted transfer, unstable support, dropped object or manual takeover during assistance to a person. |
| Home environment | Preserve a robot report of smoke, water, a hazard or an open door, along with whether the relevant household alarm was activated. |
| Safety request or stop | Preserve a human safety request, the robot's local response and any subsequent handoff. A future human-initiated safety signal could be one possible source of such a request. |
| Loss of capability | Preserve a material sensor failure, connectivity loss, low battery during assistance, or unresolved state that changed the robot's task. |
- Choose the boundaries. The resident or responsible operator declares enabled categories, relevant rooms, contacts, retention choices and who may review records. A robot's operational limits may also be declared in advance through EVIDE ANCHOR where applicable.
- Detect and act locally. The robot or its safety system responds according to its own design. An urgent response must not depend on internet access or on EVIDE accepting an intake.
- Submit a limited intake. The integration sends the event type, reported observation, time references, robot and deployment references, declared confidence or uncertainty, local response, and escalation status. It identifies the source of each claim.
- Preserve the boundary. EVIDE independently records the submitted declaration and its receipt time. Supporting material can be referenced as external artifacts where supported, with origin and integrity values declared by the submitter.
- Review what can be reconstructed. The resident, manufacturer, service provider or authorized reviewer can later distinguish the robot's report from the independently preserved receipt and from any separate evidence.
The starting point is an event record with the minimum useful information, not continuous video or unrestricted room audio. Photos, video, sensor logs or medical details require a specific reason, appropriate authority and an agreed handling process. A resident should be able to understand which events are enabled and who receives them. Household members, guests and care recipients may have different privacy interests, which must be addressed in the deployment design.
Records can refer to externally held material without EVIDE receiving the underlying file. Where an integrity hash is supplied by the submitter, EVIDE preserves it as part of the declared reference; EVIDE does not verify the underlying file's truth, completeness or integrity independently.
EVIDE is an external evidentiary layer. It does not remotely stop a robot, replace an emergency stop, diagnose an injury, decide whether an intruder is present, dispatch emergency services, or assign fault. Those actions require separately designed safety, emergency and human decision processes. Identity verification, where used, is provided by DAPI; EVIDE associates the declared identity reference with a record.
For manufacturers and home service providers, this creates a path to test a small set of event declarations without exposing continuous telemetry, internal control logic or source code. For residents, it offers a clearer answer to a practical question:
SOS EVIDE is a separate proposed service for robot-initiated reports of situations that may require human attention. Imagine a robot encountering a road accident, a person apparently in difficulty, smoke in a shared space or another unexpected hazard. It could submit a bounded intake stating what it reported observing, where and when it reported it, how uncertain it was, and what local action or notification followed.
The intake would enter a defined human review and routing process. It would not, by itself, certify an emergency or automatically instruct public authorities. A future SOS EVIDE page should specify consent and legal basis, location handling, false reports, duplicate reports, reviewer duties, recipient selection, response timing and failure modes before making any operational promise.
The two may share EVIDE's evidentiary infrastructure while requiring different permissions and workflows.
EVIDE invites robotics manufacturers, home care providers and deployment partners to define a small, synthetic, non-sensitive pilot: one robot or simulated integration, two or three declared event types, a minimum intake schema and a review of what can actually be reconstructed. The Governance Lab's existing sequence is registration, mutual NDA, Experimental Scope Note and bounded PoGR.
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EVIDE for Physical AI: Evidentiary infrastructure for robotics and autonomous systems
EVIDE ANCHOR: Declared operational perimeter
EVIDE Artifacts: External references vs. received deposits
EVIDE Governance Lab: Bounded pilots and experimental protocols
The home decides what deserves a record.
EVIDE preserves the declared event for later review.
Nothing more is claimed.
Concept page · Proposed service — this label remains until integrations and an operational process exist.
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