Humanoid Constitution

Version: 0.1 Draft

The Humanoid Constitution defines machine-enforceable governance for humanoid robots.

What This Is

The Constitution defines rules, priorities, authority domains, and governance objects that determine whether proposed physical activity is authorized.

Unlike a conventional application policy file, the Constitution is intended to participate in runtime control of physical authority across the humanoid system.

Constitutional Domains

• Mission Authority
• Ownership
• Custody
• Trust
• Human Contact
• Tool Use
• Safety
• Validator Selection
• Release Authorization

Runtime Objects

Examples include:

• Mission Objects
• Capability Objects
• Validator Objects
• Human Objects
• Tool Objects
• Trust Objects
• Release Tokens
• Execution Manifests

Relationship to Humanoid OS

Humanoid OS provides the runtime environment in which constitutional rules and objects may be loaded, evaluated, and enforced.

Applications / VLA / Planner
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Humanoid OS Runtime
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Humanoid Constitution
rules / authority / priorities
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Execution Governance

Relationship to TrustBoundary

The Constitution and TrustBoundary are complementary.

Humanoid Constitution defines applicable rules, authority, priorities, and governance domains.

TrustBoundary is a runtime candidate-action validation and authorization point at which applicable constitutional rules, robot state, predictions, policies, and validators may be evaluated before physical execution.

Humanoid Constitution
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TrustBoundary
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Actuator Runtime
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Robot Hardware

Relationship to PAIOS

PAIOS is the embodiment-independent Physical AI architecture. Humanoid OS specializes that architecture for humanoids, while the Humanoid Constitution provides humanoid-specific machine-enforceable governance within that runtime environment.

Related RFC

TR-RFC-0001 — Humanoid Constitution

See TrustRobotics/TrustRobotics-rfcs.

Related Repositories

• TrustRobotics/humanoid-os
• TrustRobotics/PAIOS
• TrustRobotics/TrustBoundary
• TrustRobotics/humanoid-sdk
• TrustRobotics/TrustRobotics-architecture

Status / Implementation State

Draft specification. This repository describes the proposed constitutional architecture and should not be interpreted as a complete or safety-certified humanoid governance implementation.

Patent Notice

Publication of this specification does not grant any patent license. Certain technologies described herein may be protected by issued patents and pending patent applications owned by TrustRobotics.