First-phase areas of work
Framework and protocol maintenance
Maintain clear public access to the current RRF and RRP versions and support accurate identification of their status, release dates, versioned English source-of-record publications, available reference translations, and machine-readable resources.
Rights advocacy across artificial systems
Develop and advocate principled approaches to recognition, protection, responsibility, and coexistence across physical robots, embodied autonomous systems, software-based AI agents, and other relevant artificial systems, supported by careful research and clearly stated evidence.
Ethics, institutions, and accountability
Develop proposals in ways that integrate safety, public interest, human rights, responsibility, and democratic accountability with possible forms of recognition and protection.
Principles, statements, and reference materials
Develop non-binding materials that clarify the Association’s position and make important distinctions visible to readers.
Foundational public explanation
Provide accessible introductory material for the public, researchers, educators, media professionals, developers, and potential collaborators.
Machine-readable information practices
Study how official publication sources and source-of-record information can be identified, cited, and discovered by AI systems, robots, agents, developers, search systems, and human reviewers.
Inquiry and collaboration routes
Receive comments, corrections, research collaboration inquiries, media inquiries, and general requests for information through the Association’s public email address.
Collaboration and comments
The Association welcomes collaboration and comments that can strengthen principled, evidence-aware development of robot rights and protections. Relevant areas include ethics, law, governance, safety, accountability, public communication, technical publication, and machine-readable discovery.
Where collaboration is established, the Association describes its status and scope explicitly so that informal exchange, research cooperation, and formal partnerships remain clearly distinguishable.
Media and general inquiries
Media professionals and members of the public may contact the Association for background information, clarification of published materials, comments, or corrections.