Machines are crossing into the physical world
Robots and autonomous vehicles are moving from fenced cells and demos into shared human spaces, where mistakes have physical consequences.
Why now
Every era of powerful technology eventually gets its system of record: the ledger, the flight recorder, the audit trail. Physical autonomy doesn't have one yet.

Robots and autonomous vehicles are moving from fenced cells and demos into shared human spaces, where mistakes have physical consequences.
Reacting quickly to a measurement is ordinary engineering. A committed, independently checkable account of intent and outcome for every action is the part no one has standardized.
Accountability converges on a common language that makers, insurers, auditors, and regulators all read. This layer is built to be that language from the start.