The Machinery Regulation applies on 20 January 2027 — a date the Official Journal first printed wrong. It puts machines whose safety functions learn onto a third-party route with no self-declaration. We found the bodies that can do that assessment and named them. What nobody has published is the standards list the route is built on.
Singapore's cleaning sector is not short of labour. It is capped: a 35 percent Dependency Ratio Ceiling, an S$800 monthly levy at the top tier, and a wage floor that is a condition of the operator's licence. Meanwhile the two statistics the industry quotes trace back to a fundraising announcement, a manufacturer's marketing page and a vendor whitepaper, and nobody in either chain can name a measurement.
ISO 10218-1:2025 excludes medical robots, healthcare robots and service robots the public can access, and names no standard that would reach them. ISO 3691-4:2023 carves out the additional hazards of trucks intended to operate in public zones; ISO/CD 25785-1 defines its industrial environment as a workplace where the public is excluded or restricted from access; both name ISO 13482 as the standard for what they exclude. Three standards push a legged robot in a hospital out, two of them pointing at a fourth whose in-force edition covers three personal care robot types it is not one of, while the edition written for service robots is an unpublished draft. That is why a safety file for that machine is built from ISO 12100 upward, not claimed.