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Factory Humanoids covers humanoids, robotic arms, cobots and line robots for assembly, inspection and packing. Editors at The Humanoid Group put it together.

Sources we rely on

ISO 10218-1:2025 Robotics: safety requirements, Part 1: Industrial robots — International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Safety requirements for industrial robots treated as partly completed machinery, before they are built into a cell.
ISO 10218-2:2025 Robotics: safety requirements, Part 2: Industrial robot applications and robot cells — International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Safety requirements for integrating industrial robots into applications and cells, across the whole life of the system.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 on machinery — EUR-Lex, European Union.
The EU machinery regulation replacing Directive 2006/42/EC, relevant to robots and cells supplied into the EU.
ANSI, A3 Publish Revised R15.06 Industrial Robot Safety Standard — Association for Advancing Automation (A3).
How the 2025 US robot safety standard adopts the revised ISO 10218 parts and what changed in them.
World Robotics report — International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
Annual statistics on industrial and service robot installations by country and industry, including India.
The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (Act 37 of 2020) — India Code, Government of India.
Official record of India's consolidated workplace safety law, with its enforcement date and the text of the Act.
Directorate General Occupational Safety and Health (formerly DGFASLI): introduction — Directorate General Occupational Safety and Health (DGOSH), Ministry of Labour and Employment.
Role and institutes of India's central technical body on safety and health in factories and docks.
Machinery and Electrical Equipment Safety (Omnibus Technical Regulation) Amendment Order, 2025 — Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Heavy Industries.
Sets 1 September 2026 as the date India's machinery safety order applies to machines in its First Schedule.

Factory Humanoids — General-purpose humanoids for line-side handling, kitting and the work between fixed machines.
Industrial Robotic Arms — Six-axis, SCARA and heavy-payload arms for welding, machine tending and material handling.
Collaborative Robots — Cobots that share the workspace with people, from screwdriving and testing to palletising.
Assembly & Inspection — Compact assembly robots and machine vision systems for precise builds and consistent quality checks.
Packaging Line Robots — Overhead delta robots that pick, place and pack products as they leave production.
Robot Safety in India — How India's OSH Code, BIS robot safety standards and DGOSH apply to robot cells on factory floors.
Cobot or Industrial Robot? — When a collaborative robot suits your line, and when a guarded industrial arm is the better buy.
Automating Machine Tending — How robots load and unload CNC machines, and what to settle on parts, grippers, safety and shifts first.
Robotic Welding — Robotic welding cells for small and mid-sized factories, from part fit-up to fume extraction and arc safety.
Automation Schemes in India — What SAMARTH Udyog Bharat 4.0, PLI and MSME credit guarantees offer factories planning automation.
Latest updates — The year's largest robot census is out, safety rules for robot cells have been rewritten and automakers are widening humanoid trials. The figures and moves below matter most for plant teams.
About us — What we cover, how we source every figure, and who publishes this site.

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