GRRCCertification
Certification
GRRC is not certifying robots yet. This page says why in the Charter's own words, and what a certification will assert when intake does open. Nothing here is a waiting list.
- Where GRRC stands today, stated without hedging.
- What a certification asserts, already fixed and public.
- The independence threshold that has to be met first.
Current status
GRRC is a single-operator certification body today, not yet a separately accredited institution. What a certification asserts is already fixed and public: the narrow, bounded claim in The Claim, never a general endorsement of a robot's safety or conduct. Robots granted a certification are listed in the Registry, which asserts membership and never current validity; verification answers that.
Get certified
Certification intake is not open; the independence threshold that must be met first is stated in the Charter below.
Why intake is not open: the Charter's own words
Document of record — Charter §G, rendered verbatim
§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 certification: certify@grrc.ai. Reports of a GRRC claim that does not hold when checked belong at Report/Disclosure instead.
Source — where the Charter text comes from, and how to check it hasn't changed
The section above is reproduced word for word from the GRRC Charter. The digest below is computed at build time over the exact bytes of the whole Charter file, and the link fetches those same bytes so you can hash them yourself.
byte-verbatim — sha256 over the exact bytes of GRRC_Charter_v1.0.md — source bytes (markdown, sha256-pinned) ↗ (11,622 bytes): 8d7bfe97c53bc28592a6be5ed2ec46ad44f55676ba9899bd40b5b712e4c22ce1