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.
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edition covers three personal care robot types it is not one of, while the edition written for service robots is an unpublished draft.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.