{ "schemaVersion": 1, "programId": "RCI-EVIDENCE-PARTNER-1", "version": "0.2.0", "publishedOn": "2026-08-11", "status": "three-candidates-contacted-awaiting-replies-no-partnerships-claimed", "title": "RCI Physical Test and Independent Replication Partner Program", "objective": "Move exact-model robot-component claims from desktop evidence work into reproducible EV4 bench tests, EV5 external replications and, where an applicable accredited scope exists, EV6 laboratory results.", "firstProtocol": { "id": "RCI024-BENCH-1", "path": "RealSense D455 to Seeed reComputer Industrial J4012", "currentState": "two evaluation-loan requests submitted; zero loan approvals, specimens, runs or results", "plannedTests": [ "exact identity and software freeze", "repeated SuperSpeed enumeration", "concurrent depth/RGB/IMU delivery", "USB VBUS voltage/current", "timestamp offset/drift/jitter", "thermal soak and restart behavior" ] }, "collaborationTracks": [ { "id": "track-protocol-review", "label": "Protocol review", "targetWorkLevel": "no EV upgrade by itself", "operator": "RCI or a future named operator", "requiredDeliverables": [ "dated review comments", "reviewer identity and affiliation", "conflict disclosure", "accepted/rejected change log" ], "boundary": "Advice, equipment recommendations or a successful demonstration do not constitute an external replication." }, { "id": "track-hosted-ev4", "label": "Hosted RCI bench test", "targetWorkLevel": "EV4", "operator": "RCI controls the run and analysis; a host may supply facilities or instruments", "requiredDeliverables": [ "exact specimen manifest", "instrument and calibration records", "predeclared protocol and thresholds", "complete raw records including failures", "analysis code and file-hash manifest" ], "boundary": "A host facility is acknowledged, but hosting does not make the result an external independent replication." }, { "id": "track-external-ev5", "label": "External independent replication", "targetWorkLevel": "EV5", "operator": "a named external organization runs the protocol on a separately identified specimen", "requiredDeliverables": [ "signed protocol version", "separate specimen identity", "external operator and facility identity", "complete raw records and deviations", "independent analysis or transparent recomputation", "publication and conflict disclosures" ], "boundary": "RCI may supply the protocol or analysis template but cannot operate the external run or suppress an unfavorable result." }, { "id": "track-accredited-ev6", "label": "Applicable accredited-laboratory test", "targetWorkLevel": "EV6", "operator": "a laboratory whose applicable test or calibration scope is verified for the claimed measurement", "requiredDeliverables": [ "laboratory legal identity", "accreditation body and certificate", "applicable scope and method", "report identifier and date", "specimen identity", "uncertainty and deviations", "public quotation/reuse permission" ], "boundary": "The laboratory name alone is insufficient. EV6 applies only to the measurements covered by the verified scope and report." } ], "independenceRules": [ "A donated, loaned or discounted specimen is disclosed with the provider, dates and return conditions.", "A supplier may correct factual identity or safety errors but receives no approval right over protocol, thresholds, findings, headline or publication timing.", "Payment may buy laboratory time or calibration, never a favorable result, evidence level, ranking or omission of failed runs.", "RCI and every external operator disclose employment, funding, equipment, travel, consulting, investment and other material relationships.", "All attempted runs stay in the denominator; exclusions and deviations are dated and justified before summary publication.", "Photographs and video prove identity or procedure only. They do not replace raw measurements, instrument records or uncertainty.", "A coauthored report identifies who designed, operated, analyzed, reviewed and funded each part of the work.", "No organization is described as an RCI partner until both parties have explicitly agreed to the stated scope." ], "candidateOrganizations": [ { "id": "astar-artc-ros-industrial-apac", "name": "A*STAR ARTC / ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia Pacific", "geography": "Singapore", "candidateRole": "protocol review, robotics testbed or hosted EV4 engineering collaboration", "officialUrl": "https://www.a-star.edu.sg/artc", "supportingUrl": "https://rosindustrial.org/ric-apac", "status": "contacted-awaiting-reply", "fitBoundary": "Its industry and robotics collaboration role is relevant, but no facility, staff, schedule, price or independent-replication commitment has been agreed." }, { "id": "ntu-robotics-research-centre", "name": "NTU Robotics Research Centre", "geography": "Singapore", "candidateRole": "academic protocol review or separately operated EV5 replication", "officialUrl": "https://www.ntu.edu.sg/rrc/home", "supportingUrl": "https://www.ntu.edu.sg/rrc/research-focus", "status": "contacted-awaiting-reply", "fitBoundary": "Robotics and perception capability makes it a plausible candidate; no researcher, laboratory, specimen or replication has been committed." }, { "id": "astar-national-metrology-centre", "name": "A*STAR National Metrology Centre", "geography": "Singapore", "candidateRole": "instrument calibration, measurement uncertainty or traceability support", "officialUrl": "https://www.a-star.edu.sg/nmc/Service-Consultancy/CMS", "supportingUrl": "https://www.a-star.edu.sg/nmc/About-NMC/National-Measurement-System", "status": "contacted-awaiting-reply", "fitBoundary": "Calibration can strengthen EV4/EV5 measurement traceability but is not by itself a robot-component performance replication or EV6 result." }, { "id": "tuv-sud-singapore", "name": "TÜV SÜD Singapore", "geography": "Singapore / international", "candidateRole": "safety, conformity or applicable accredited testing after scope confirmation", "officialUrl": "https://www.tuvsud.com/en-sg/industries/manufacturing/machinery-and-robotics/agv-testing", "supportingUrl": "https://www.tuvsud.com/en/services/testing/humanoid-robotics", "status": "candidate-not-contacted", "fitBoundary": "RCI must verify the exact laboratory, method and accreditation scope before assigning EV6; general robotics certification capability is not a D455 accuracy or J4012 performance result." }, { "id": "umass-lowell-nerve", "name": "UMass Lowell NERVE Center", "geography": "United States", "candidateRole": "later-stage robotics capability benchmarking or EV5 replication", "officialUrl": "https://www.uml.edu/Research/NERVE/default.aspx", "supportingUrl": "https://www.uml.edu/research/nerve/test-courses/test%20courses.aspx", "status": "candidate-not-contacted", "fitBoundary": "Its robotics test environment is relevant to later system-level validation; distance, cost and exact component-level fit remain unassessed." } ], "submissionContact": "factcheck@robotcomponentindex.com", "nonClaims": [ "RCI currently has no announced laboratory, university or testing-center partner.", "Three bounded enquiries were delivered on 2026-08-11; delivery is not a human reply, endorsement, availability, agreement, partnership or accreditation evidence.", "The first D455 to J4012 protocol has zero runs and zero results because no specimen has been received.", "RCI is not a certification body or accredited laboratory." ] }