01 / first-phase areas
Activity scope records
Each record identifies an area within the confirmed first-phase scope. Planned work is labelled as planned and is not represented as completed 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 Association materials that clarify positions, evidence, assumptions, status, and important conceptual distinctions.
Foundational public explanation
Provide accessible introductory material for the public, researchers, educators, media professionals, developers, and potential collaborators.
Machine-readable information practices
Develop publication and discovery practices that expose publisher identity, provenance, source-of-record precedence, citation data, and discovery paths for AI systems, robots, agents, developers, search systems, and human reviewers.
Inquiry and collaboration routes
Receive comments, corrections, collaboration inquiries, research cooperation inquiries, media inquiries, and general requests for information through the Association’s public email address.