Functional Safetybriefings.

A refinery control room at dusk with a technician watching monitors while a robotic arm operates on piping visible through the window outside.

When AI Starts Moving the Machinery

Agentic AI is shifting from advisory dashboards to direct control of refinery and plant equipment, and the safety case ownership question has not caught up.

Close-up of an industrial AI chip glowing under factory light with a robotic arm blurred behind it.

The Silicon Beneath the Agent

As agentic AI moves onto safety-certified industrial silicon and RTOS stacks, buyers must locate exactly where the certification boundary ends and the uncertified agent begins.

A humanoid robot arm interacting with a laser safety scanner on an industrial factory floor.

Who Certifies the Humanoid

Vendor consortiums are writing de facto safety standards for industrial humanoids faster than regulators can formalize them.