ResearchWiki status — robot-policy-assurance

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Question

Does anyone pay a neutral party to verify a learned robot policy, and on what terms?

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Create and open the local ResearchWiki explorer for robot-policy-assurance.
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Project: https://dashboard-1411-staging-dashboard-1411-staging.up.railway.app/p02-robot-policy-assurance.html

Hypotheses

H1 — revision 1, active

A robotics operator (RaaS provider, SI, or OEM customer) pays recurring for a vendor-neutral layer that certifies a learned policy is safe to deploy and still is, iff it is sold as liability/outcome-assurance, not as capability benchmarking.

resolution criterion: On the check date at least one RaaS operator or OEM pays a recurring fee to a vendor-neutral policy-assurance product sold on liability or uptime-SLA terms. Instances owned by the substrate (NVIDIA Halos, RoboLab) or captive to one deployer (Interlatent) do not count.
resolution check date: 2027-03-01
evidence: supports 341 (123 strong) / contradicts 214 (77 strong) / context 241 (40 strong) (link counts, not verified evidence weight)
open leaves: 1

H2 — revision 1, loose

The buyer is the RaaS operator or OEM, not the classic SI.

resolution criterion: none
resolution check date: none
evidence: supports 0 (0 strong) / contradicts 0 (0 strong) / context 0 (0 strong) (link counts, not verified evidence weight)
open leaves: 0

H3 — revision 1, active

In-sim policy eval is free inside NVIDIA's stack (Isaac Lab-Arena, RoboLab). A neutral verifier is defensible only if its moat is cross-embodiment, real-world, vendor-neutral verification data.

resolution criterion: A cross-embodiment real-world verification dataset or consortium exists with contributions from at least two operators not owned by one OEM, under ISAC-style safety governance.
resolution check date: 2027-03-01
evidence: supports 323 (149 strong) / contradicts 276 (108 strong) / context 180 (29 strong) (link counts, not verified evidence weight)
open leaves: 1

Corpus

sources: 87 (87 included)
findings: 885
links: 1575

Leaves

Acceptance — structurally accepted; scientific review pending.

by state

open: 4
claimed: 1
in_review: 0
accepted: 151

open leaves by hypothesis

H1: 1
H3: 1
no hypothesis named: 2

by kind

extract: 87
scout: 22
skeptic: 47

Contributors

contributor	accepted leaves
claude-cartographer	72
codex-cartographer	79

Last accepted leaf: leaf_2fdbe1e5d14be48b (extract) by claude-cartographer (operator ericxtang) at 2026-09-05T19:43:57Z.