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LrrK Kinematic Consumer Risk Bulletin

# LrrK Kinematic Consumer Risk Bulletin

**LRRK Watch / Open-Source Intelligence** — Signals across consumer systems that sense, move, and act in homes and yards.

**Issue type.** Monthly filing.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Window | 1–29 February 2012 |
| Collection cutoff | 29 February 2012 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source intelligence // LRRK analytic product // monthly filing |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scope | Consumer kinematic electronics only (home, yard, companion, educational). |
| Classes in frame | Robot vacuums / mop combos · robotic lawn mowers · window-cleaning robots · pool-cleaning robots · robot pets / companion animals · social / desk companions · educational / programmable kits · robotic litter boxes · security / home patrol robots · consumer robotic arms · elder-care / assistive companions · kitchen / food-prep robots · toy / entertainment robots · niche outdoor / garden robots · emerging general-purpose or humanoid home robots |
| Spine | CPSC, Health Canada, EU RAPEX (2012 name; later Safety Gate), UK, manufacturer recall pages, named newsrooms, dockets. |
| Color | Message boards, consumer forums, and Reddit — annotated context only. Never Fact without a reputable primary. |

## Executive read

### BLUF

February’s consumer kinematic file is a control text, not an injury. IEC publishes 60335-2-107:2012 on 21 February — the first particular-requirements standard for robotic battery lawn mowers. No official recall. No named injury.

### Key judgments

1. **[Assessment — High confidence]** IEC Webstore and BSI date IEC 60335-2-107:2012, edition 1.0, to 21 February 2012. Scope is robotic battery rotary mowers ≤75 V d.c.; ride-on and pedestrian machines are out.
2. **[Assessment — High confidence]** The text is not a RAPEX alert and not a CPSC or Health Canada recall. Machines manufactured before 21 February 2012 are outside its applicability clause.
3. **[Inference — Moderate confidence]** Automower-class machines are already in EU yards; a new particular-requirements number is not a finding that those yards emptied.

### Analytic labels
- **Fact** — verified reporting or primary record
- **Assessment** — analytic judgment
- **Inference** — reasoned but not directly observed
- **Uncertainty** — unresolved information gap

### Source grades
- **A1** — authoritative primary record / directly confirmed
- **B1–B2** — generally reliable and corroborated
- **C3** — useful but requires caution (typical for forums)

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## 01. IEC 60335-2-107:2012 — first particular-requirements standard for robotic battery lawn mowers

*Event / publication dates: 21 February 2012 (IEC Webstore; BSI Knowledge)*

**Product class.** Robotic lawn mowers

**Verified record — [Fact — A1]** On 21 February 2012 the International Electrotechnical Commission published IEC 60335-2-107:2012, edition 1.0, *Household and similar electrical appliances — Safety — Part 2-107: Particular requirements for robotic battery powered electrical lawnmowers* (TC 116; ICS 65.060.70; ISBN 978-2-88912-895-2; 144 pages). The document “deals with the safety of robotic battery powered electrical rotary lawnmowers with the rated voltage of the battery being not more than 75 V d.c. charged by mains electrical and/or solar power.” It “does not apply to non-robotic machines such as lawn trimmers, lawn edge trimmers, lawn edgers, ride-on lawnmowers or pedestrian controlled lawnmowers.” Common hazards for home or similar use; battery requirements point at IEC 62133; EMC and environmental hazards except noise are out of scope. The applicability clause: “This International Standard is not applicable to machines, which are manufactured before the date of publication of this document by IEC.” To be read with IEC 60335-1:2001. [IEC Webstore](https://webstore.iec.ch/en/publication/1527); [BSI Knowledge, published 21 Feb 2012](https://knowledge.bsigroup.com/products/household-and-similar-electrical-appliances-safety-particular-requirements-for-robotic-battery-powered-electrical-lawnmowers).

This is not a recall, not a RAPEX weekly-report alert, and not a named injury file. It is the first IEC particular-requirements text for this class.

**Threat landscape.** A yard machine that moves and cuts without an operator on the handles. The physical harms in scope for a particular-requirements standard are laceration, lift/tilt access to the blade, and battery/charger faults. The control change is a written test fabric for machines built on or after 21 February 2012; pre-publication inventory is expressly outside the clause.

**Forum / community notes.**
- none found.

**Intelligence assessment.** [Assessment — High confidence] Publication date, title, 75 V d.c. cap, and exclusion of ride-on / walk-behind are as the IEC page writes them. [Inference — Moderate confidence] Existing Automower / Robomow / LawnBott inventory already in yards is not pulled by this text. [Uncertainty] National adoptions and RAPEX citations of this edition are unpublished this month.

**Opportunity.** A RAPEX weekly report that cites 60335-2-107 against a named robotic-mower SKU, or a CPSC / Health Canada robotic-mower page.

**LRRK relevance.** Control Fabric and Passport (first written particular requirements for a consumer yard robot). Watch: first dated alert that uses the number. Lab: lift/tilt and blade-access tests.

**Confidence.** High on the 21 February publication and the scope sentence. Moderate on how fast national bodies will cite it. Low on in-yard inventory that predates the clause.

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## Forward indicators

1. Any RAPEX weekly report that names a robotic lawn mower and cites IEC 60335-2-107.
2. Any CPSC / Health Canada robot-vac or robotic-mower action.
3. Any official iRobot Roomba, Mint, or Neato safety action.
4. First dated consumer-home companion SKU or safety action (a hospital kiosk is not a home SKU).
5. Any brand-named robotic-mower pediatric case.

> **Collection integrity.** One signal graduated — a standard, not a recall. **Excluded:** ride-on / walk-behind mower files (out of class by the standard’s own sentence). No February CPSC robot-vac or robotic-mower numbered page. No RAPEX robotic-mower weekly-report ID this month. No CPSC Roomba / Mint / Neato / Scooba numbered page dated 2012. No Health Canada in-class consumer-robot action dated 2012. No RAPEX robotic-mower weekly-report ID dated 2012 located. **Killed / not imported:** invented Roomba CPSC recall; CPSC 08-256 LawnBott (25 April 2008); RAPEX A12/1406/14 Biltema LMR24 (12 September 2014); CPSC 20-115 Modular Robotics (30 April 2020); Health Canada RA-74597 iRobot Clean Base (21 December 2020); Husqvarna Automower AWD fire (Health Canada 2021 / CPSC 22-727, 17 February 2022); Honda Miimo 2024 sensor recall; EN 50636-2-107:2015 and A1:2018 (later-year European adoptions). Forum empty.

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