RIA: Robotic Industries Association

RIA: Robotic Industries Association

RIA, the Robotic Industries Association, is a trade group founded in 1974 to serve the robotics industry in North America. RIA drives innovation, growth, and safety in manufacturing and service industries through education, promotion, and the advancement of robotics, related automation technologies, and companies delivering integrated solutions. Member companies include leading robot manufacturers, users, system integrators, component suppliers, research groups, and consulting firms. Standards from RIA are available both individually, directly through the ANSI webstore, and as part of a Standards Subscription. If you or your organization are interested in easy, managed, online access to standards that can be shared, a Standards Subscription may be what you need - please contact us at: [email protected] or 1-212-642-4980 or Request Proposal Price.

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ANSI/A3 R15.08-1-2020 (R2026)

Industrial Mobile Robots - Safety Requirements - Part 1: Requirements for the Industrial Mobile Robot

ANSI/A3 R15.08-1-2020 (R2026) is Part 1 of the R15.08 Series. The R2026 edition is a reaffirmation of the original publication with no technical differences from the original text (2020 edition). R15.08 Part 1 provides guidance so that robotics manufacturers can design and produce industrial mobile robots that operate with acceptable risk in a specified operating environment (SOE) documented by the manufacturer. The standard emphasizes the importance of safety that is designed in from the start, the crucial need for risk assessment as an iterative process, and key information – known as "information for use" – to be transmitted to the system integrator and ultimately the end-user of the IMR.

ANSI/A3 R15.06-2025 (Parts 1+2) / ANSI/A3 R15.06-3-2025 (Part 3)

Industrial Robots and Robot Systems - Safety Requirements (Parts 1, 2, and 3)

Includes ANSI/A3 R15.06-2025 (a revision of ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012 and National Adoption of ISO 10218-1:2025 and ISO 10218-2:2025) and ANSI/A3 R15.06-3-2025 (Part 3), Use of Industrial Robot Cells. ANSI/A3 R15.06-2025 provides updated guidelines for industrial robots in Part 1 of the document and updated guidelines for industrial robot applications and robot cells in Part 2 of the document. Parts 1 and 2 emphasize safe use and the importance of risk assessment and establishing personnel safety. ANSI/A3 R15.06-3-2025 (Part 3), Use of Industrial Robot Cells, was developed in the United States with input from corresponding standards development experts in Canada to provide guidance to users of industrial robot cells.

RIA TR R15.306-2016

Task-based Risk Assessment Methodology

The 2012 R15.06 standard requires that a "risk assessment" of the robot system be completed in order to comply with the standard. TR 306 describes one method of risk assessment that would comply with the R15.06 requirements. The 2016 version of TR 306 has been updated since the original version was published in 2014.

RIA TR R15.406-2014

Safeguarding

TR 406 explains how to design a system of safeguards to protect human workers in an industrial environment that also contains robot system(s). This document contains greater detail than in the original 2012 R15.06 standard document. The TR 406 document as published in 2014 continues to be the current active version.

RIA TR R15.606-2016

Technical Report - Industrial Robots and Robot Systems - Safety Requirements - Collaborative Robots

This Technical Specification specifies safety requirements for collaborative industrial robot systems and the work environment, and supplements the requirements and guidance on collaborative industrial robot operation given in ISO 10218-1 and ISO 10218-2 [ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012].This Technical Specification applies to industrial robot systems as described in ISO 10218-1 and ISO 10218-2 [ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012]. It does not apply to non-industrial robots, although the safety principles presented can be useful to other areas of robotics.

ANSI/RIA R15.06-1999 (R2009)

Industrial Robots and Robot Systems - Safety Requirements

Provides requirements for industrial robot manufacture, remanufacture and rebuild; robot system integration/installation; and methods of safeguarding to enhance the safety of personnel associated with the use of robots and robot systems. This second review further limits the potential requirements for any retrofit of existing systems, revises the description of control reliable circuitry, and reorganizes several clauses to enhance understanding.

ANSI/RIA R15.06 / ANSI B11.0 / ANSI B11.19 - Industrial Robots and Machinery Safety Package

ANSI/RIA R15.06 / ANSI B11.0 / ANSI B11.19 - Industrial Robots and Machinery Safety Package (Save 12% off List Prices)

The ANSI/RIA R15.06 / ANSI B11.0 / ANSI B11.19 - Industrial Robots and Machinery Safety Package provides the foundation to assess the risk associated with industrial robots and robot systems and to provide safeguarding of this machinery. It also provides requirements for industrial robot manufacture, remanufacture and rebuild, robot system integration/installation, and methods of safeguarding to enhance the safety of personnel associated with the use of robots and robot systems. ANSI/RIA R15.06 / ANSI B11.0 / ANSI B11.19 - Industrial Robots and Machinery Safety Package includes:

 
  • ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012
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  • ANSI B11.0-2020
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  • ANSI B11.19-2019