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What Should Quality Professionals Know About the Updated U.S. Robot Safety Standard?

The Association for Advancing Automation recently released ANSI/A3 R15.06-2025, the first major revision of the U.S. safety standard for industrial robots since 2012.

Marin Roush

April 20, 2026

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