Safety Third: Autonomous Revolution

About Safety Third: Autonomous Revolution

Welcome to our podcast dedicated to the intersection of innovation and safety. Join us as we engage with subject matter experts across various industries, exploring the pivotal query of ensuring safety innovation. We delve into conversations with safety industry experts to glean diverse perspectives, invaluable experiences, and groundbreaking concepts in the realm of safe innovation. Your host, Erik Reynolds, guides these discussions, offering a platform for insightful dialogue and strategic insights.

Publisher

Reynolds and Moore

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Sept 2022

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

66 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Why Certified Parts Don't Guarantee a Certified System with Mark Nehrkorn

   Mark Nehrkorn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/manehrkorn-safety/), Senior Director of Functional Safety & Compliance at Symbotic (https://www.symbotic.com/), joins Erik Reynolds (https://www.linkedin.com/in/s-erik-reynolds/) to talk about why certified parts don't guarantee a certified system. Over more than 30 years in machine safety, Mark has worked at Boston Dynamics and SICK. Today he leads the team keeping Symbotic's robotic warehouse systems safe. Every certified component arrives with its own conditions for use, and Erik points out that the more components a system combines, the more likely those conditions are to conflict. Mark explains when an off-the-shelf certified part makes sense, and when building thousands of robots makes it smarter to design your own. Safety work doesn't stop at commissioning. Symbotic's robots each drive more than 50 miles a day, while electronic components can reach end of life in years or even months. Mark describes how losing access to a single part can send a newly certified system back to the start. It's part of why he sees the traditional 20-year mission time as less relevant than it used to be. Mark Nehrkorn is also speaking at the R&M Physical AI & Safety Summit (https://reynolds-moore.com/events/rm-physical-ai-safety-summit/) on October 13 at MassRobotics in Boston. Register for the Summit: https://reynolds-moore.com/events/rm-physical-ai-safety-summit/ (https://reynolds-moore.com/events/rm-physical-ai-safety-summit/) More on Symbotic: https://www.symbotic.com/ (https://www.symbotic.com/) Check out our work: https://reynolds-moore.com/ (https://reynolds-moore.com/)

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   Building the Safety Hardware Underneath Robots with Weihan Wang

   Erik Reynolds interviews Weihan Wang, Director at NexCOBOT, about the critical hardware foundations for robot safety and advanced certification processes.

3. 

   7 Sept 2026

   When Code Drifts From Its Architecture with Dr. Daniel Simon

   Distinguished Solutions Engineer Dr. Daniel Simon and Erik Reynolds discuss how software architecture impacts safety-critical system development and verification.

Who has been a guest on Safety Third: Autonomous Revolution

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• Weihan Wang
• Daniel Simon
• Chris Soranno
• Lorenzo Nava
• Kevin Reese

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

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66

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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