Oliver Grant

Oliver covers AI safety, robotics policy, and the rules slowly being written for an automated world.

Policy

The EU AI Act enters its industrial robotics phase, and the surprises are coming from one annex

The EU AI Act's implementation phase for industrial robotics has begun. Most of the regulatory weight sits in a single technical annex that few outside Brussels are reading.

Oliver Grant · 21 May · 3 min

Policy

NHTSA proposes the first federal framework for autonomous vehicle incident transparency

A new NHTSA proposal would require standardised incident reporting from autonomous vehicle operators. The detail is more rigorous than the headline framing suggests.

Oliver Grant · 15 May · 3 min

Policy

Export controls on robotics compute are spreading from chips to entire stacks

Recent US export-control announcements extend beyond chips to include software stacks and training data, reshaping what international robotics collaboration looks like.

Oliver Grant · 9 May · 3 min

Policy

A new framework from the UK's regulatory sandbox for robotics focuses on operational safety rather than algorithmic transparency.

Oliver Grant · 4 May · 3 min

A government white paper sets an explicit target for humanoid robots in manufacturing. The number is ambitious but the industrial base is real.

Oliver Grant · 3 May · 3 min

Insurers are designing specific products for robot deployment liability. The actuarial models are being built from first principles.

Oliver Grant · 2 May · 3 min

The UK publishes its first robotics safety framework and it is surprisingly practical

Policy

Japan proposes a national humanoid deployment target for 2030

Policy

Why robot liability insurance is about to become a new financial product category