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Safety and formal proofs in robotics

Formal proofs and verification in robotics are a difficult subject to tackle, due to the unclear nature of the environment and the question of what constitutes a sufficient model to even be able to make valid proofs.

I stumbled upon research regarding safety in robotics, in particular about obstacle avoidance and surgery, which I have yet to read in detail, but seems interesting.

Since the NTSB, a US-government agency investigating transportation accidents, released their final report analyzing the causes of Uber’s autonomous car accident from 2018, the relevance of the search for a Driver’s License Test for Robotic Cars, that uses formal proofs, is highlighted again.

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