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name: tai-ch073-testing-ai-in-humanoid-robotics
description: 'Apply chapter 73 of Testing AI, Testing AI in Humanoid Robotics, as a workflow for evaluating AI and non-deterministic systems. Use for test planning, eval design, quality review, release evidence, examples, or coaching related to testing ai in humanoid robotics.'
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# Testing AI in Humanoid Robotics

Skill name: `tai-ch073-testing-ai-in-humanoid-robotics`

Based on **Testing AI: Engineering Confidence in AI Systems** by **Jason Arbon**.

## Purpose

Humanoid robots turn AI quality into perception, motion, social interaction, and physical-world
safety.

## Use This Workflow

- Identify the AI behavior or release decision being evaluated.
- Define realistic cases, slices, unacceptable outcomes, and evidence needed for confidence.
- Choose measurements that match the risk: rubric scores, samples, intervals, traces, human review, deterministic checks, or production monitors.
- Report uncertainty, severe failures, and decision impact instead of only a pass/fail result.

## Key Guidance

Humanoid robotics is not just a chatbot with arms and legs. The system perceives the world,
plans actions, moves through space, interacts with people, handles objects, and reacts to
changing physical conditions. For example, a home-assistance robot may need to understand
speech, identify a medication bottle, navigate around a child, open a cabinet, avoid a pet bowl,
and ask for help when uncertain.

## Apply The Approach

Create representative cases, score them with explicit criteria, review severe failures separately, report uncertainty, and connect the evidence to a concrete decision.

## Expert Notes

At expert level, humanoid robotics testing should combine simulation, hardware-in-the-loop
testing, physical safety envelopes, near-miss logging, perception stress tests, red-team
scenarios, human-subject review, and emergency-stop validation.