When AI gets a body, a hallucination is no longer a wrong answer — it is a physical action. PAIG is an open, community technical committee drafting vendor-neutral standards for autonomous embodied AI: a Force Continuum, an "ISO 42001 for Robotics," and the API that makes them provable.
Standardization of the governance of autonomous embodied AI — humanoids, general-purpose mobile manipulators, and any AI system that can move and apply force among people: how much force such a system may be authorized to apply, how much human control that force requires, the management system and technical controls that make the coupling real, and the vendor-neutral interface that makes it enforceable and provable after the fact.
Real, current standards cover parts of the problem — and stop exactly where autonomous humanoids begin.
Govern industrial, collaborative, and gentle service robots — force limits, safety-rated stops. They assume defined tasks, not open-world autonomy taking real-time commands.
From 2027, add AI & self-evolving-behaviour review and human oversight. A conformity regime — not a graduated force-authorization scale.
How much force a machine may apply and how much human control it requires — and a universal, provable way to answer, after an incident, what it was told, what it decided, and who was accountable.
Four working areas, structured like a technical committee. Each maintains a living draft in the document register; every convenor seat is open.
Deliverables under development. Every document is an open draft — versioned in the repository, free to read, comment on, and implement.
| Doc ID | Title | Working area | Stage | Version | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAIG-1 | Physical AI Force Continuum (PAFC) | WG-1 · Core | RFC — open for comment | v0.1 | · Source ↗ |
| PAIG-2 | Embodied AI Governance Standard ("ISO 42001 for Robotics") | WG-2 · Standard | Working Draft | v0.1 | · Source ↗ |
| PAIG-3 | Physical AI Governance API | WG-3 · Interop | Working Draft | v0.1 | · Source ↗ |
| PAIG-0 | Working Group & Governance | WG-0 · Process | Forming | v0.1 | · Source ↗ |
A plain-language analogue of the ISO stage ladder (WD → CD/DIS → IS). "Forming" marks a process document awaiting ratification at the first session. Nothing here is a published ISO standard or a certification — these are community drafts designed to complement ISO 10218:2025, ISO 13482, the EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230, the EU AI Act, and ISO/IEC 42001.
The living drafts, in full. Comments and pull requests welcome via the repository.
An open committee: participation is free and the process is public. Cognita GRC is the steward, not the owner — the standard text is CC BY 4.0 and the API specification is Apache-2.0. We're forming the working group now to take v0.1 to a citable standard.
First deliverable: ratify the Force Continuum v0.1 (PAIG-1) as an RFC. How to join: open a GitHub Issue titled “Join: [your role]” with one line on your background, or contact Cognita GRC.
How the committee decides — rough consensus, evidence over opinion, public-safety first. The full process document is PAIG-0, to be ratified at the first session.
Material safety decisions require sign-off from ≥ 2 functional-safety and ≥ 1 regulatory participant. Substantive changes arrive as pull requests with a linked Issue + rationale.
Drafts published; call for participants.
Force Continuum RFC ratified; minimal audit-log schema; reference OpenAPI spec.
Pilot with ≥1 robotics vendor; map to EU MR 2023/1230 + EU AI Act.
Citable standard + open reference implementation.