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description: 'Apply chapter 153 of Testing AI, Embodied Robotics: Safety in Real-World Environments, 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 embodied robotics: safety in real-world environments.'
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# Embodied Robotics: Safety in Real-World Environments

Skill name: `tai-ch153-embodied-robotics-safety-in-real-world-environments`

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

## Purpose

Robots turn AI failures into motion, force, contact, and consequence. Real-world testing starts
by making the physical risk visible.

## 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

Embodied robotics is AI with a body. The system does not only answer, recommend, or generate. It
perceives the world, chooses an action, moves through space, touches objects, affects people,
and changes the state of the environment. That makes ordinary software testing feel almost
quaint. A wrong answer can frustrate a user. A wrong movement can break a glass, block a
hallway, drop medication, or injure someone.

## 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, combine hazard analysis, fault tree analysis, operational design domains,
safety envelopes, physical interlocks, human factors, and near-miss telemetry. Use simulation
for coverage, hardware-in-the-loop for integration, and staged physical trials for reality. A
robot eval that only reports task success is missing the main thing.