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Occupational Safety and Health Administration

US federal agency that sets and enforces workplace safety and health standards, investigating hazards and injuries across industries.

Known aliases

  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  • OSHA

Current stories

buildConfirmed4 publishers

Two frontier robot policies attempted 158 of 160 dangerous tasks outside the baby-doll scene

Robocurve's RoboHarm harness put three frontier policies through 300 fixed trials on a pair of $2,999 arms. The published per-trial logs show where a refusal landed and what it cost in model calls.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 44%
Operator
Operator 36%
Investor
Investor 20%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives40
Confidence70
buildConfirmed3 publishers

Digit 5's 20-hour day leaves nine minutes of slack per 108-minute cycle beyond running and charging

Agility showed Digit 5's specifications on September 15 and expects general availability by the end of 2027. That leaves the barrier-free safety architecture two years to produce field data for buyers weighing a 284-pound biped.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 40%
Operator
Operator 40%
Investor
Investor 20%

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption20
Hype gap+25
Incentives80
Confidence55
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Union membership's 16-year high puts density at a third of the 1950s peak

An Entrepreneur contributor counts 16.5 million represented workers and roughly 463,000 new members in a year as a warning to employers, and then forecasts that the growth stops. Employers planning 2027 pay get two readings of one number.

Publishers:entrepreneur.com

Reality

Evidence28
Adoption45
Hype gap+35
Incentives72
Confidence32
productOne report1 publisher

OSHA closed its Zoox inquiry after the company promised CO2 monitors in Atlanta test cars

A contractor's complaint about gas exposure grounded Zoox's Atlanta test fleet in August. The remedy on the federal record is one sensor and a battery swap, in cars where an emergency room named carbon monoxide.

Publishers:techcrunch.com

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption45
Hype gap−12
Incentives68
Confidence62
productOne report1 publisher

Waymo and Zoox test drivers absorbed dozens of injuries while training the robotaxis

Autonomous vehicle safety cases rest on crash comparisons with human drivers, but exclusive OSHA data reported by TechCrunch carries a second injury count: the sprains and whiplash logged by the test drivers training the cars.

Publishers:engadget.com

Reality

Evidence46
Adoption58
Hype gap+24
Incentives62
Confidence48
productOne report1 publisher

Agility's Digit 5 sits down and shuts off its motors so workers can walk up to it

Agility rebuilt Digit's legs, payload and safety architecture for customers who asked to run the robot without barriers between it and their staff. The OSHA field evaluation it was designed for has not happened yet.

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption20
Hype gap+34
Incentives78
Confidence52
investOne report1 publisher

Agility Robotics carries a going-concern warning into its $2.5 billion SPAC

The company says its Digit 5 humanoid can work safely beside people, holds more than $300 million of multiyear orders, and does not expect general availability until the end of 2027. It plans to list at $2.5 billion.

Publishers:morningstar.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption38
Hype gap+38
Incentives84
Confidence56
productOne report1 publisher

Hard braking is injuring the test drivers who validate robotaxis

A TechCrunch review of OSHA filings counts more than two dozen injuries to Waymo and Zoox test drivers across 2024 and 2025. The figures are public at all only because both companies file as higher-hazard taxi operators.

Publishers:techcrunch.com

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption68
Hype gap−22
Incentives66
Confidence67