A safety standard retired because the assumption underneath it — that a human can intervene in time — stopped holding.
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The industry drops the big red button for probabilistic failure limits
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With a million robots expected, the industry is abandoning the big red button standard for probabilistic failure limits, accepting that physically stopping a humanoid is no longer viable.
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