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GRRC is not yet accepting certification intake. There is no application form, no fee schedule, and no waitlist on this page — publishing intake mechanics before the threshold below is met would put mechanics ahead of meaning.
What a certification will assert when intake opens is already fixed and public: the narrow, bounded claim in What Certification Means — never a general endorsement of a robot's safety or conduct.
Why intake is not open: the Charter's own words
Document of record — Charter §G, rendered verbatim
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§G — The single-operator reality and the road to independence
Today I am the president of both RES and GRRC. There is currently a single operator, with the intent to incorporate RES and GRRC as two separate legal entities. As Owner, I maintain full dominion over the robot, its knowledge, and its attributes; a GRRC certification, by contrast, is issued by the certifier and is not owned or controlled by the Owner.
GRRC is intended to operate as a genuinely independent certification body. Institutional independence is not yet achieved. The current reality is a single-operator exception that is explicitly acknowledged and will be phased out.
Cryptographic separation is enforced today: the robot will only accept a clearance signed by a dedicated certifier key that is cryptographically distinct from any owner key. This makes any attempt at self-clearing detectable and forbidden. However, cryptographic separation is not the same as institutional independence. The latter requires a distinct legal entity with separate operational control and key custody — a state the system is designed to reach but has not yet reached.
Independence, as used in this charter and the whitepaper, will mean at minimum a distinct legal entity operating GRRC with separate key custody, such that the certifier can be told "no" by the parties it judges and can survive doing so. Full institutional separation — a distinct legal entity operating GRRC with separate operational control and key custody — will be in place before GRRC certifies any robot publicly or for a genuine third-party customer. Internal friends-and-family beta testing does not meet that threshold, including any token fee charged solely to validate that payment processing works.
Contact
Questions about future intake: certify@grrc.ai.